"NEW WARS" AND CONSTRUCTION OF IDENTITY
The article deals with the conclusions of modern social philosophy regarding the transition of mankind to “new wars” as a fundamentally changed way of warfare. The distinctive features of the “new wars” from the socio-philosophical point of view are three main features: the connection is often not with the national interests expressed and supported by the state, but with the activities of individual groups on the basis of “identity policy”; redistribution of activity from fighting and control over territories to control over resources, information and symbolic space; formation of a specific military economy, depending on sources such as external support and criminal income. If the traditional war is characterized by the separation of public and private actions, internal and foreign political processes, civil and military population, front and rear, economic and political tasks and the states of war and peace, in the wars of the modern era, these boundaries are erased. Analysis of the trends of identity transformation in the modern world can, to the author's opinion, contribute to the understanding of the nature of “new wars”. At present, identity is less and less the result of self-determination of a person on the basis of his/her natural entry into objectively existing social communities and is increasingly the result of active involvement of a person in social communities, which themselves are the product of social construction. This trend seems to be key in explaining the shift in the role of the subject of hostilities from national States to sub-state communities and the increasing number of cases of people joining armed actions on the side of communities with which they are not linked by natural identification.