Civilization and multipolarity: Converging for co-operation vs. interactions of the diverged

P. 78–92.

Safranchuk I.

This chapter discusses the civilizations in the context of contemporary structural realities of a multipolar world in which two opposite trends are at work at the same time. In view of everything said in the earlier sections of this chapter, civilizations can be suitable components for a world that is materially global but lacks ideational universality. The phenomenon that had become known as globalization by the end of the twentieth century – after decades of discussions about growing global interdependence and its new nature – can be regarded in a broader context as an amalgamation of two process that were unfolding in an interdependent manner over the previous two or three centuries. A materially globalized but ideationally non-universal world – a world that has only ceased to aspire to universality but is actually moving in the opposite direction – has become the contemporary structural reality, with an inherent contradiction at its heart.

Keywords: globalization, civilizations, multipolar world

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Civilizations and World Order

Chebankova E., Dutkiewicz P., Lane D., Marchetti R., Mezhuev B., Pabst A., Safranchuk I., Sledzevsky I., Tsygankov A. L.: Routledge, 2022.