POLITICAL GLOBALIZATION STUDIES: A CONFLICT OF INTERPRETATIONS AND WAYS TO OVERCOME IT

The article analyzes the tentative contribution of geo-policy, geo-economy and geoculture in developing political globalization studies as an empirical science. Having scrutinized basic geo-political, geo-economic and geocultural concepts A. Kazantsev is showing that two approaches having an expressed normative and ideological orientation are fighting one another: these are the universalist and particularist approaches. While deeming it necessary to give up posing the universal opposite to the local as a precondition for bringing together the multitude of global studies in one and the same discipline, the author assumes that special aspects of the relationship between the universal and local must form the content of global studies.