Year : 2020, Volume : 24, Issue : 2
First page : ( 10) Last page : ( 37)
Print ISSN : 0971-8052. Online ISSN : 0974-0937. Published online : 2020  16.

The return of history world politics in the early twenty-first century

Volodin Andrey

Abstract

This article focuses on global processes that took shape in the last quarter of the twentieth century. The logic of their continuation has decisively affected the megatrends of modern world politics and the role of Russia in the newly emerging international system. The demise of the Soviet Union and the collapse of the bipolar world order only suspended the natural evolution of the global system. “Truncated” globalisation resulted in a “reactive” accumulation of contradictions between the “supercivilisation”and the rest of humanity as well as within the societies that “won” the Cold War. The growth of radical anti-Western groups like the Islamic State, the strengthening of new international “influentials” and the gradual revival of Russia as a world power have all disproved the “end of history” thesis. Today, the existential problem faced by the world is the search for a new global consensus, with a collective security system covering all of humanity at its core.

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