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Legacies Of The Collapse Of Marxism -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- The Collapse in Historical Perspective -- Cause of the Collapse of the Communist System: Present Situation and Future Prospects in Hungary -- Varieties of Russian Nationalism -- Nationalism, Civil Society and Democracy -- The Geopolitics of Ethnic Mobilization: Some Theoretical Projections for the Old Soviet Bloc -- Protection of the Rights of Minorities―Back to the League of Nations? -- Asymmetrical Reciprocity in Market Exchange: Implications for Economies in Transition -- Conservative Political Philosophy and the Strategy of Economic Transition -- The Role of the State in the Transition to Capitalism -- Liberty or Prelude to New Disasters? The Prospects for Post-Revolutionary Central and Eastern Europe -- Academe and the Soviet Myth -- Why Didn't We Anticipate the Failure of Communism?

Discusses feasibility of biological weapons targeting people of a specific race or ethnicity; covers history of germ warfare, scientific facts, battlefield scenarios, and work of the Human Genome Diversity Project.

Five patterns for the human colonization of unoccupied regions are tested for viability by the use of a new stochastic band simulation program, called ETHNOPOP ©, that incorporates four demographic variables: (1) sex ratio at birth, (2) distribution of sibships, (3) maternal risk of giving birth, and (4) risk of death; as well as three cultural variables: (1) marriage choice, (2) polygyny, and (3) marriage pool. It was discovered that small colonizing bands initially undergo a Stochastic Crisis because of a demographic version of the Sewall Wright Effect, followed most often by a Malthusian Takeoff in population size if fertility rates are high enough. Of the models tested, it was discovered that the "string of pearls" model, in which bands are arrayed along a stream or coastline, is the most viable colonizing pattern, and that the "outpost" model, in which a band has no contiguous bands, and the "beachhead" model, in which a group of bands are clustered against a body of water, should be subsumed under the "pulse" model, in which successive waves of colonists enter a previously unoccupied area, [colonization, modeling, simulation, sex ratio, fertility]