Multi-polarity and Global Leadership

Abstract

Contemporary world policy does not seem capable enough to address urgent global problems and to prevent the emergence of the new ones. As a result, injustice and inequality aggravate in the world scale. Progressing crisis within Western civilization has created new waves of conflicts in the Euro-Atlantic area, as well as in other regions of the world. Meanwhile, globalization, economic regionalization and growing multi-polarity have opened new development possibilities for non-Euro-Atlantic macro regions and civilizations. The article compares different models of globalization, where each of them attempts to adopt its own scenarios for global development, and achieve leadership on global scene. But despite such ambitious pretentions, global problems of humanity are still ongoing and aggravating, due to inflexible, archaic, bureaucratic decision-making processes. Moreover, in the context of globalization, unsustainable world politics becomes a transnational problem.