In the Face of the Strategic Choice: New Imperatives of World Policy

• Main Author: Mark A. Neymark
• Format: Article
• Language: Russian
• Published: Centre of Regional Research 2017-10-01
• Series: Problemy Postsovetskogo Prostranstva
• Subjects: geopolitics; polycentrism; reideologization; conflicts; new challenges and threats; international security; russia; sanctions; russophobia
• Online Access: https://www.postsovietarea.com/jour/article/view/122

The article analyzes global changes in the international arena, which in a concentrated form reflect the dynamics of the most complicated geopolitical processes, the dialectics of the interconnection of the old and the new in the world politics. We study its problem nodes and key issues. The world political process is considered as an expression of a flexible mobility, variability, dynamic interaction of a multitude of objective and subjective factors that determine the content, nature and vectors of the evolution of the world community. The author focuses on the systemic set of interdependent subprocesses: global, regional, local-country, inertial, crisis, etc. Dialectical interrelations of national and global in world politics are traced. Great attention is paid to the role of social networks in the global space. The peculiarities of the globalization of information processes, their influence on the alignment of forces in the world arena, geopolitical capabilities and the potential of the information sphere in the competitive rivalry of states are revealed. The strategic lines of Russia’s foreign policy are analyzed taking into account the latest trends that determine its geopolitical status and place in the world community. In the actual problematic refraction, the features of Russophobia in world politics, its phantoms and realities are being comprehended. The most important issue of world politics — achieving geopolitical goals by increasing the desirable or reducing the undesirable is being conceptualized. Geopolitically, it is extremely important that it is the cultural and humanitarian imperative that lies at the basis of «soft («flexible or intelligent») power», which comes to the forefront of world politics. «Soft power» is considered as a comprehensive tool for solving foreign policy problems with the support of the opportunities of civil society, information and communication, humanitarian and other methods and technologies. At the same time, close attention is paid to underwater reefs — the risks of destructive and unlawful use of «soft power» in order to exert political pressure on sovereign states, interfere in their internal affairs, manipulate public opinion and consciousness.