Глобальный мир эпохи «воюющих демократий»

Abstract

In the history of China there was a period of so-called “fighting (warring) states” (“Zhanguo shidai”: the 5th – the 3rd centuries B.C.). The world is currently experiencing an era of “fighting democracies”. There are many democracies in the world, but none in its classical form. Democracy itself implies the existence of a diversity of its political experience. Therefore, no one has a monopoly on democracy, no moral right to judge others by their “democratic standards”. The very struggle for democracy is a war of democracies themselves. Whoever manages to achieve the fullness of sovereignty, which in turn depends on the self-sufficiency of the state, wins. The inflation of freedom pushes the world into the infinity of political conflict. The issue of sovereignty and subjectivity has re-emerged on the agenda in connection with the formation of a new contour of a multipolar world order. And this new geopolitical configuration is germinating against the background of the crisis of the Atlantic project of building a globalist unipolar world. The purpose of this paper is to reveal the content of the era of “fighting democracies” as a process of systemic crisis of democracy in general and its specific values in particular. The main hypothesis is that there are various subjective interpretations of the ideal of democracy in political reality, which often diverge from reality.