How visas shape and make visible the geopolitical architecture of the planet
| Autor: | S. Vasheghani Farahani, Meghdad Saeedian, G. Reza Jafari, Tayeb Jamali, Marcel Ausloos |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Statistics and Probability
International relations Physics - Physics and Society Globe FOS: Physical sciences Context (language use) Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph) Condensed Matter Physics Geopolitics 01 natural sciences Matter of fact 010305 fluids & plasmas Globalization medicine.anatomical_structure Political science Physics - Data Analysis Statistics and Probability 0103 physical sciences Global network medicine Economic geography 010306 general physics China Data Analysis Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an) |
| Popis: | The aim of the present study is to provide a picture for geopolitical globalization: the role of all world countries together with their contribution towards globalization is highlighted. In the context of the present study, every country owes its efficiency and therefore its contribution towards structuring the world by the position it holds in a complex global network. The location in which a country is positioned on the network is shown to provide a measure of its "contribution" and "importance". As a matter of fact, the visa status conditions between countries reflect their contribution towards geopolitical globalization. Based on the visa status of all countries, community detection reveals the existence of 4+1 main communities. The community constituted by the developed countries has the highest clustering coefficient equal to 0.9. In contrast, the community constituted by the old eastern European blocks, the middle eastern countries, and the old Soviet Union has the lowest clustering coefficient approximately equal to 0.65. PR China is the exceptional case. Thus, the picture of the globe issued in this study contributes towards understanding "how the world works". |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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