Inter-Civilization Collisions.

“The Third Way of Development”–

an Alternative to Inter-Civilizational Wars

 

We live in a world of total substitution, when the geocultural reality is replaced by the "cargo cult" of copying geopolitical models of development. As a result, the formal copying of democracy, its achievements and principles around the world entails misunderstanding and lack of perception when confronted with geocultural traditions.

 

Democracy in the Western world cannot be democracy for Russia, China, the Arab world and other civilizational ecumenes.

 

There are certain issues of democracy deployment for other civilizational and geo-cultural formations:

 

•     The logic of building an EU-type democracy - only through peaceful coexistence, without dialectical laws of development, without the “unity and struggle of opposites”, within centralized hierarchies incapable of dynamic change and ignoring the growing complexity, diversity and hybridization of processes – DOES NOT WORK.

 

•        Despite geopolitical considerations regarding the inevitability of democracy, the leaders of authoritarian regimes or parties that have seized power on their own are NOT AN ACCIDENT OR A MISTAKE OF HISTORY. Peoples who have been under authoritarian rule for centuries are different from the national communities of the Western world, which trace their history back to Greek democracy. The mentality and existence of such peoples depend on the existence of their empire, regime, caste, or clan. Democratic appeals to such masses are therefore strengthless in the face of the power of tradition, habit and preference.

 

•        It is wrong to assume that a liberal democracy can be built after a change of authoritarian regimes. The system in its genetic manifestation always returns, albeit in a modified form, to its original state.

 

Today the world community is able to overcome the historical barrier of inter-civilizational struggle!

 

The development of society and technology makes it possible to expand the system of international economic relations on the basis of a publicly available cyber platform. Such a “cyber platform” is capable of implementing the principles of geocultural distinctions for any state and geopolitical entity, while basing itself on the basic principles of democracy.The platform will create a variety of polycentric institutions that will ensure sustainable development, economic growth, and the simultaneous preservation of a geo-cultural identity for all economic and political actors.