ТЕОРІЯ ДЕМОКРАТИЧНОГО МИРУ ЗА УМОВ КРИЗИ ПОСТБІПОЛЯРНОЇ СИСТЕМИ МІЖНАРОДНИХ ВІДНОСИН

Abstract

The article analyzes the problem of democratic peace. After World War I, Woodrow Wilson declared that the world must be made safe for democracy. It is believed that democratic countries are not at war with each other. The experience of the First World War showed that democratic leaders think in terms of honor, victory, and national pride. The people are often agitated by demagogues, so they can approve an unnecessary and unprofitable war. The authors showed that the thesis that the global spread of democracy can be a universal insurance against large-scale armed conflicts is controversial. The informational and psychological opposition of Western democrats to authoritarian regimes has become the mainstream of modern international relations. As a result of this fact, a hybrid world conflict takes place in the format of sanctions, expulsion of diplomats, special information operations. The purpose of the article is to highlight the problem of the realism of the theory of democratic peace under the conditions of the crisis of the post-bipolar system of international relations. Under a democratic political regime, power is given to an entity elected by the people, who must return it to the people after the end of their term in power. Any information about the activities of the government discredits it. Representative democracy requires that the leader's decisions are subject to careful scrutiny, that the leaders tell the truth and are ready to bear responsibility for the decisions made. Incompetence undermines the essence of representative democracy. The ailment of democratic states is the reduction of the effectiveness of governments. Attempts to implement the theory of democratic peace in practice tend to fail. The reasons for this are not only in the famous irony of history, which cancels out the titanic efforts of social engineers and directs them in the opposite direction, but also in the impossibility of spreading a uniform form of political system on a global scale. The Chinese project will restore a bipolar system in which the USA will play the role of the USSR. In the coming years, the Chinese project will collide with the American one.