Ordo Quadro:
Advent of Post-Modern World
Neklessa A.I.,
Chairman of the Commission on the social and cultural globalization; member of the Bureau of the Scientific Council “History of World Culture” at the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS); Head of the Laboratory for Geo-economic Analysis, Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, neklessa@intelros.ru
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For citation:
Neklessa A.I. Ordo Quadro: Advent of Post-Modern World . – Polis. Political Studies. 2000. No. 6
Abstract
Civilization of Modern drags on in a state of a systemic crisis which has enveloped its political, economic, cultural institutions, the very system of the world arrangement. There is appearing an outline of a new historical epoch, with a compound construction of the world North and the world South as its pivot. The new world is born in the struggle of three historical tendencies: modernization, post-moderni-zation, end demodernization (neoarchaization). And, as it turns out, the mechanism of interaction within the post-Yalta (and post-Westphalian) universe noticeably differs from the inner arrangement of the international system of the passing New time epoch. Interaction of the new realities with the old national-state system of the world arrangement engenders the phenomenon of countries-systems whose formal and real boundaries manifestly fail to coincide. With increasing number of risk varieties significant for mankind, ever greater interest is caused by non-stationary models of the future world order, of which the scenarios of development are based on principles and methodology of controlled chaos.