Geopolitical Conяicts as a Result of Transformation of the Modern World Order: Reality and Prospects

This article explores the current direction of modern geopolitics associated with conяicts of our time. In particular, attention is paid to the analysis of the origins of the aggressive policy of the leading world countries, especially the United States. The authors argue that one of the principal causes of today’s regional conяicts that could potentially develop into the world conяicts is the concept of “universal values.” The author focuses on the fact that the initiator of such conяicts may be the subjects of globalization. The forcible imposition of such Westernistic standards gives rise to the active rejection in many countries. The threat of a geopolitical conяict is determined by the transnational information networks uniting the whole world space because ubiquitousness of the extremely intensive mass media and relatively high geographic mobility contribute to the emergence of zones of irrationality. The line between the internal and interstate conяicts existed for a long period of time, although it was not too severe. With the end of the Cold War this line rapidly began to get blurred: it is the limited conяicts of the internal internationalized nature that have become the main type of the military confrontation in the 90’s. At this, the internal internationalized conяicts have combined the most dangerous features of both international and internal conяicts. When analyzing the causes of geopolitical conяicts of the globalization era we should assume that the interaction of interests on the international scene is often conяicting in nature and it is impossible to remove the conяicts from political practices at all; it is necessary to learn how to manage them minimizing potential costs and damage. The Western policy of globalization aimed at the destruction of national cultures and practices of globalization in many ways is deёned by the subjects of the globalization pressure seeking to impose their own standards to the world community. One of the most dangerous manifestations of the globalization pressure is the policy of “double standards”, the display of which is the use of force in international relations and the willingness to apply it in deёance of the international law. Due to the fact that the world is gradually losing its multipolarity, the globalization methods are becoming more open and aggressive. Fundamentals of stability of the modern system, its viability and activity are declared as derivatives of the state of the American resources, political will and intellect. At the beginning of the 21st century for the ёrst time in a hundred years foreign countries started talking about the empire and imperial thinking without the usual liberal judgment accepting it as a real fact of political and cultural life.

• Sidorenko EkaterinaV.

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