It provides an initial empirical confirmation of many of the ideas discussed in the other segments of the larger project. Subsequent work on this submission that will overlay different flows should add greater relief. This paper then turns to the linkages that connect the different countries of Eastern Europe with themselves and with different nations in Western Europe. It provides a set of preliminary indicators of the density of interactions of western nations, such as Austria, with the various republics of Eastern Europe. As one would expect the results are uneven.
Some nations relate more intensively with other nations.
But some relate more intensively with almost all. The role of Singapore as the secondary communications and information hub is also less defined for the relations between the two Europes. Austria, given its geography, history, and ambitions, might be well-advised to carefully study the set of interaction maps and nodes that are expected to result from this research effort as a device for shaping its own strategy. Telecommunications traffic in Asia has increased dramatically in the past fifteen years, with a trend towards more numerous, regionally focused connections. While ties to historical traffic destinations remain strong, i.e., Japan and the United States, the NICs and emerging economies of Southeast Asia are generating new interaction maps that document more complex, more polycentric, network patterns.