Oleg Ignatkin: Diplomacy Limited

Throughout the history being unleashed diplomacy has always s been a topic that evoked deep respect from many people. As well as the world that existed  20-30 years ago contrasts sharply with the modern one.

Firstly, it is connected with the general system of instability, existing in the modern world. One witnesses it judging by the increase of the general number of threats and ambiguous processes of globalization, happening in the modern world. But this instability is linked with the general processes of turbulence – further disintegration, retreat from the ideas of democracy, assertion of national interests.

Secondly, emerging challenges and threats are to a larger extent defined by the previous actions of the USA and the USSR in the bipolar era. It was then, when the world saw proliferation of the various terrorist organizations, separatist movements in the number of countries. The general trend of their further unraveling is tied with non-sufficient regulatory system on the world global arena. 

Eventually, thirdly, the general system of the modern international relations represents the system of the grand flows of capital, not thoroughly regulated. Absence of political institutions of the global character – is the major problem of the modern global development.

Oleg Ignatkin, Associate professor, PhD. Department of Foreign policy and area studies.