Geocivilization approach in international conflict studies
At the present time, when we observe the growth of international, regional and local conflicts, we, on the one hand, realize that there are many factors through which these conflicts have arisen and are developing. On the other hand, one cannot but admit that many of them arose not only because of specific actions of specific individuals and the implementation of foreign policy strategies of various states, but also because of serious misunderstandings and disagreements that arose on cultural and geocivilizational separation lines. Moreover, it is obvious that most conflicts are provided by the established lines of geocivilizational confrontations, as well as by the struggle of civilizations and states within geocivilizational spaces. And, regardless of the type of war and time, we see a repetition of the world confrontation. Actually, geocivilization is a kind of union of similar in the mentality of civilizations, which consist of creating blocks of states or, on the contrary, struggling with each other for the title of a core state of one or another geocivilization. For this reason, one cannot investigate conflicts without considering the situation at a higher, geocivilization level. In addition, in recent years in academic science is gaining such an approach in the study of security issues. This article proves the need for its use in the study of international relations and conflicts.