The Role of the West in Evolving World Order, and Russian Politics

Abstract

The coexistence of modernities of different structural types, with different historical foundations, and with different systemic modes of structural organization leads to the coexistence of traditional and new actors within a single spatiotemporal arrangement of international relations and to the differentiation of macroregions and nation-states in accordance with structural principles of organization. In the final analysis, the type of political access in specific nation-states and the combination of different types of political access in macroregions with different modes of structural organization and at different stages of historical development influence the developmental strategies of states and the character and priorities of their foreign policies; these in turn continue in significant measure to shape the processes that form the space of world politics. The identification of such interconnections makes it possible to analyze the influence of the type of sociopolitical access in states, coalitions of states, and global regions on the formative processes and character of the space of world politics and to engage in social engineering of the format of national and world space with a view to optimizing conditions for national development. Theoretical and practical conceptualization of the interconnection between external and internal processes, including their political component, will enable us to work out applied theories of competitive models of cooperative regional and national development and strategies for national modernization and development with adequate protection of national interests.

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* The Russian word effektivnost’ may be rendered as “efficiency” or “effectiveness”; the comparative studies to which the author refers may focus on either or both of these criteria—Trans.

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Alexei D. Voskressenski

Alexei Dmitrievich Voskressenski is a professor, Doctor of Political Sciences, and Doctor of Philosophy (University of Manchester), dean of the School of Political Affairs and World Politics at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations–University, and editor in chief of the journal Sravnitel’naia politika.