The Formation of the Polycentric World Order as a Continuation of the Geopolitical Processes of the Twentieth Century
Abstract
The article is focused on the evolution of geopolitical arrangements that had initially materialized in the concluding quarter of the twentieth century and had given birth to the contemporary world politics paradigm including the growing role of Russia. The present author maintains that the very process of History is objective (i.e. independent of political establishment’s likes and dislikes) and continuous. This point is argued by appeal to various academic sources, among them the works of Russian and foreign historians, economists, philosophers, political scientists and futurologists. The dismemberment of the U.S.S.R. and collapse of bipolar world suspended, for a short while only, the developments at the sunset of the twentieth century. “Truncated” globalization resulted in “reactive” accumulation of controversies both between the North Atlantic “supercivilization” and the “rest” and within societies that emerged victorious after the cold war. The new vulnerabilities consisted of: deindustrialization as a sideeffect of globalization, “orientalization” of western societies as part and parcel of massive migration inflows from the South, political and economic decline encouraged by disappearance of powerful “countercentre”
embodied by the Soviet Union, waning of economically active population under existent demographic trends throughout the West, etc. Instrumental of cold war revision have also been: emergence of radical antiWest megaprojects like the “Islamic State”, gaining strength by the erstwhile “new influentials” as well as revival of Russia as an omnipotent world power. Nowadays, Pax Americana has become inefficient to be substituted by a new and workable global consensus on universal collective security system that meets the basic requirements of contemporary multipolar world.
embodied by the Soviet Union, waning of economically active population under existent demographic trends throughout the West, etc. Instrumental of cold war revision have also been: emergence of radical antiWest megaprojects like the “Islamic State”, gaining strength by the erstwhile “new influentials” as well as revival of Russia as an omnipotent world power. Nowadays, Pax Americana has become inefficient to be substituted by a new and workable global consensus on universal collective security system that meets the basic requirements of contemporary multipolar world.
Keywords
“end of history”,
new influentials,
USSR,
USA,
Washington consensus,
truncated globalization,
“orientalization”
of the West,
split of civilization,
antiglobalism,
turbocapitalism,
polycentric world
system,
new global consensus,
H. McRae,
Ch. Kindleberger,
W.W. Rostow,
B.R. Nayar,
P. Buchanan
About the Author
A. G. Volodin
Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
DSc in History, Chief Researcher
117997, Profsoyuznaya St., 23, Moscow, Russian Federation
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Volodin A.G. The Formation of the Polycentric World Order as a Continuation of the Geopolitical Processes of the Twentieth Century. Outlines of global transformations: politics, economics, law. 2019;12(4):6-31. (In Russ.)
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