After Post-Modernity: Discussion Points Against the Background of Global Transformations

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The transition of the basically local military-political crisis in the Western Eurasia into the real focus of global geopolitical transformations and civilizational confrontation. That has brought to the agenda the issue of degradation of the principles of universalities that were the basis for globalization in both: socio-political and socio-economic spheres thus demonstrating deepening interaction between them. The world is facing the perspective of competition of different models of development and their political and social localization that reflect the specifics of social-economic environment. The fact that global transformations became the result of interaction of the objective and subjective, contextual factors as well as sometimes were brought to reality through the interaction of political leaders brings us to the conclusion that the world is nowadays within the transitional era that contains several points of bifurcation of political nature that in turn drive for different models of socioeconomic development. The sharp nature of ongoing transformations reflects the situation when most of the paradigms and instrumental models that were regarded as axiomatically universal like institutional governance and representative democracy started to lose their relevance as political and socio-political management tools. The same is true about a bulk of global economic tools such as the universal protected nature of economic interdependence and international trade. But all that was the basis for the globalization. The system of global political and economic relations that has resided quite recently in the environment of nearly total universality started to lose synergy and integrity while forming complex localized formats in which political and socio-cultural factors play the leading role ahead of economic basis and socio-economic relationships. The research drives to the conclusion on the possibility of emergence of the two competing models claiming a global status the specifics of interaction between them and the key differences between them.

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Dmitry G. Evstafiev

HSE University; RUDN University

Author for correspondence.
Email: devstafiev@hse.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6276-0342

PhD in Political Sciences, Professor of the Institute of Media, Faculty of Creative Industries, HSE University; Professor of the Department of Theory of Law and State, RUDN University

Moscow, Russian Federation

Lubov A. Tsyganova

HSE University

Email: ltsyganova@hse.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2769-843X

PhD in History, Associate Professor of the School Communications of the Faculty of Creative Industries

Moscow, Russian Federation

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