Political Cataclysms at the Start of the Century and the Future of the International Relations System

• Published in: MGIMO Review of International Relations
• Main Author: A. V. Korobkov
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Russian
• Published: MGIMO University Press 2015
• Subjects: «вестернизация»; eurocentric system; sovereignty; colonialism; empire; hegemony; globalization; «westernization»; global north; third world; self-determination; democratization; International relations; JZ2-6530; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.24833/2071-8160-2015-6-45-23-29; https://doaj.org/article/0b7a9506f4774ea39babf26673665c45

Abstract: Crises in Ukraine and the Middle East indicate the existence of deep shifts in the global international relations system. These shifts are much more serious than the widely discussed erosion of the US international monopoly and are related to the global transfer of the world economic and political power center from North Atlantic to the Pacific Basin. Thus quickly collapsing is the world Eurocentric system that has ruled the world since the end of the Fifteenth century. Meanwhile, the Western, and especially the European elites refuse to recognize the scale and the potential consequences of these processes. In particular, their actions are pushing Russia towards China. Retaining stability of the international system would require the recognition by the Global North of the reality of these changes, the return to the acceptance of the state sovereignty concept, and the abandonment of attempts to impose its will on the others under.