Contours of Conflict in the 21st Century

CROSS-LANGUAGE DOMAIN PERSPECTIVESGlobal drivers – Rank FIGURE 53. GLOBAL DRIVERS – RANkThis figure illustrates the rank order for each driver for each languagedomain, again ordered from left to right in cumulative declining order.To give an example: the nature of future military technology is the topdriver in the English, the third one in the Russian but only the 6 th one inthe Chinese studies.The figure shows – in line with the previous one – that the overall topdrivers vary quite widely across the different language domains – onlydemographic factors and fragmentation get virtually the same rank inall 3 language domains (but neither are that high up on the list).Whereas the previous figure (which merely illustrates how often driverswere mentioned) showed that language domains sometimes tended tocluster on an ad-hoc basis, this figure shows that when we look at theactual rank order behind the frequency count, domains tend to differmore. In the overall top 6 drivers, for instance, only globalization sawthe Chinese and the Russian studies attributing it a top-3 ranking (theHCSS Report 139