MEGATRENDS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE MODERN WORLD SYSTEM AND THE SECURITY INTERESTS OF RUSSIA
The article examines the main characteristics of the emerging new system of international relations, highlights the megatrends that determine its formation. The author notes that although the United States influence on world political and economic processes is decreasing, they still remain the key factor in world politics and the world economy and will retain those positions in the foreseeable future. World history shows that international relations have always striven to bipolarity and there is no reason to deny their modern evolution in the same direction. World policy is implemented in the context of globalization, which remains the main megatrend in the development of the modern world. The current stage of globalization urgently calls for the formation of effective system of global governance, which implies rejection of existing rules of international law, a state’s failure on its own sovereignty. At this stage of the evolution of human civilization, the establishment of a world government is impossible. The resulting contradiction between the objective need for global governance and the impossibility of its implementation is one of the most important megatrends of our time, determining the course of the world political process. It is very important to Russia to fit into these megatrends, find their niche and use them in the interests of their own modernization in order to avoid marginalization.