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<article xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="ru"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">kaspy</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="ru">THE CASPIAN REGION: politics, economics, culture</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="electronic" /><issn publication-format="print">1818-510X</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="ru">Астраханский государственный университет им. В. Н. Татищева</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">151</article-id><title-group xml:lang="ru"><article-title>Geopolitical fantasies and ambitions of Eurasian states in the second half of XX – at the beginning XXI centuries and their influence on modern international political situation</article-title></title-group><title-group xml:lang="en"><article-title>Geopolitical fantasies and ambitions of Eurasian states in the second half of XX – at the beginning XXI centuries and their influence on modern international political situation</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Smolyev</surname><given-names>Vladimir Valeryevich</given-names></name><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Smolyev</surname><given-names>Vladimir Valeryevich</given-names></name></name-alternatives><email>black_imperar@mail.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff200" /></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff200"><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Astrakhan State University</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Astrakhan State University</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub"><year>2013</year></pub-date><issue>2</issue><fpage>274</fpage><lpage>280</lpage><history /><self-uri xlink:href="https://kaspy.asu-edu.ru/en/archive/2013/issue/2/article/151">https://kaspy.asu-edu.ru/en/archive/2013/issue/2/article/151</self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="https://kaspy.asu-edu.ru/storage/kaspy/archive/2(35)/274-280.pdf" content-type="pdf">https://kaspy.asu-edu.ru/storage/kaspy/archive/2(35)/274-280.pdf</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>Postmodern pattern of political world order gives the science new phenomena not occurring in the world historical practice. The issue of geopolitical fantasies and ambitions is one, of the most important one standing on the agenda in the modern for us age era. The research attempt and solution of this problem can alleviate or avoid economic wars, genocides, political and military conflicts of states and also total attempts of history falsification at an early date. The author of the article reveals the meaning of the notion geopolitical fantasies. He views problem and examples of geopolitical fantasies and ambitions of Eurasian states in the second half of XX – at the beginning XXI centuries. The ways of solution of this problem also are proposed in the article.</p></abstract><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>Postmodern pattern of political world order gives the science new phenomena not occurring in the world historical practice. The issue of geopolitical fantasies and ambitions is one, of the most important one standing on the agenda in the modern for us age era. The research attempt and solution of this problem can alleviate or avoid economic wars, genocides, political and military conflicts of states and also total attempts of history falsification at an early date. The author of the article reveals the meaning of the notion geopolitical fantasies. He views problem and examples of geopolitical fantasies and ambitions of Eurasian states in the second half of XX – at the beginning XXI centuries. The ways of solution of this problem also are proposed in the article.</p></abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>geopolitical fantasies</kwd><kwd>geopolitical ambitions</kwd><kwd>falsification</kwd><kwd>confrontation</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>geopolitical fantasies</kwd><kwd>geopolitical ambitions</kwd><kwd>falsification</kwd><kwd>confrontation</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group xml:lang="ru"><funding-statement /></funding-group><funding-group xml:lang="en"><funding-statement /></funding-group></article-meta></front><body /><back><ref-list /></back></article>