It is shown that the revision of the ABM Treaty and deployment of the US NMD system will result in growth of the numbers of missiles in other countries and also will give an impulse for increasing global instability. The new approach for revision of the ABM Treaty have to be concentrated first...

Methods of economics and mathematical models as well as of analysis of dynamics of the economic development indicators under technological change are considered. The attempt of quantitative assessment of some results of technological change is made. The experience of elaboration of the complex...

In the chapter of the monograph published to 70 years anniversary of outstanding Russian economist, the founder of the Russian scientific school of macroeconomic analysis and forecasting Alexander Anchishkin. Some peculiar features of the knowledge economy development are considered. Comparative...

The presented assessment method has been used both for military and civil technologies (aircraft, cars, machines for pipeline construction, etc.). In the author's opinion, it can be utilized for preliminary assessing the offensive/defensive capabilities of the main types of weapon systems...

The work is devoted to urgent problems of the analysis and forecasting of conflicts at global and local levels on the basis of economics and mathematical methods and models. The received results permit to deepen understanding geopolitical processes occurring at present in the world. On their...

The Monograph contains the analysis of results of the unique survey elaborated with the help of 270 leading Russian scientists - members of the Russian academy of Sciences. The aim of survey was to choose priorities for science and technology in Russia at the first stage of the transition to...

The authors propose a set of five fundamental parameters that they consider to be indicative of future conflicts. They conclude that there is a high risk for inter-civilization conflicts which will become the major source of global instability in the next century. It would be in the West's self...

The chapter is devoted to the urgent problem of forecasting conflicts on the basis of economics and mathematical models. A new approach is proposed for research of existing and potential international conflicts at the global and local levels, based on economic, social, demographic,...

The stability risks associated with the transition from planned to market economies in the countries of the FSU are the subject of the contribution. There are severe problems of conversion for the oversized military establishment and its related industries. Their solution demands significant...