Factors of Dynamics of Global Political Processes br

The article highlights the factors that have either a retarding or accelerating effect on the dynamicsof global political processes. The factors that have a retarding effect on the dynamics of globalpolitical processes include the following: growing income inequality and social stratification withinmost countries of the world; the erosion of democracy and the decline in popularity of the Westernliberal model of development as a reference model; the growth of support for populism policies; theconflict between globalization and the national interests of the State, especially exacerbated duringthe pandemic; the policy of protectionism; the crisis of global governance; the spread of ideas ofanti-globalism. These factors provoke the trend of globalization. Factors that influence theacceleration of the dynamics of global political processes: increasing inequality between countriesand intensifying competition between them; digitalization; an increase in the number andaggravation of global problems, among which climate change occupies a special place; the crisis inthe field of global health (all this shows the need for integration and cooperation of countries toovercome them); global migration; expansion of the number of non-state actors; the emergence ofthe phenomenon of hybrid warfare and the changing nature of conflicts; a new concept of security;the expansion of global consciousness and the ideology of globalism; the idea of multipolarity.These factors prevail in the overall balance and give rise to a tendency of accelerated movementtowards a multipolar polycentric world. The interaction of these two groups of factors generates anunstable and nonlinear nature of the dynamics of global political processes. The most importantconsequence of the acceleration of the dynamics of global political processes is the gradualemergence of a new configuration of the geopolitical landscape and the transformation of the globalgeopolitical space, the change in the ratio of geopolitical forces and the shift of the center of gravityfrom West to East