ZThe Analysis of the Situations in the Geopolitically Unstable Zones (Regions) of the Contemporary as a Specific Procedure: The Scheme of the First Stage

Abstract

ZThe Analysis of the Situations in the Geopolitically Unstable Zones (Regions) of the Contemporary as a Specific Procedure: The Scheme of the First Stage

Ryabtsev V.N.

Incoming article date: 25.09.2017

This work presents the second article within the series devoted to the peculiarities of the analysis of the situations in geopolitically unstable zones (regions) of the contemporary world. The author focuses on the first stage of this scientific procedure. It includes the determination of the geographical parameters of the region under investigation (or the problematic zone of the world), the study of the topography of the involved political powers and compiling their basic characteristics as well as the identification of the overall “architecture” the studied site.

Keywords: system analysis, situational analysis,“place-action” (pad), “local” states, the status and viability of the states, the geopolitical taxonomy of the region, the state’s power, the potential of the state, national interests, axis of national interests