NEW LIBERALISM AND GLOBALISM ARE TWO SIDES OF THE SAME COIN

Abstract

Introduction. The article contains the analysis of democracy in today’s environment under the influence of the ideology of new liberalism and globalism pursued by the governments of the EU, subject to the migration and civilizational factors. Materials and methods. The research methodology includes general scientific and specific methods of investigation into political and social phenomena and tendencies such as systematic and structural analysis, the synthesis of social and legal studies, comparative legal methods, etc. The article is aimed at studying the perspectives of the future development of democratic institutions in terms of economic, political, demographic and confessional transformations. Research results. As a result of the analysis, the authors conclude that under the influence of the recent political and demographic transformations, the European democracy as a universal remedy for all political troubles has turned useless in the modern political environment facing the challenge of mass migration and the destabilizing effect related thereto. In addition, political regimes existing in Africa, Asia and Latin America as well as in the post-Soviet countries can be described as democratic to a very limited extent on the basis of such criteria as separation of power, rule of law, civil rights and freedoms, fair elections, etc. As far as Islamic civilization is concerned, despite certain formal democratic characteristics existing in some Islamic states, such states could hardly be called truly democratic. Discussion and conclusions. It is required to revise the key criteria for democracy subject to recent political, economic, social and demographic transformations, paying special attention to the importance of the civilizational and religious factors for democratic developments in the countries of Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America.