PANDEMIC LESSONS: THE NEED FOR A NEW POLITICAL THINKING
With the beginning of the new Cold War, the new political thinking so popular during perestroika initiated in the USSR, disappeared in the political vocabulary. This happened for a number of reasons, such as: Gorbachev’s new political thinking has practically fulfilled its historical destination to...
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| Language: | English |
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Faculty of Philosophy, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje
2021-12-01
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| Series: | Bezbednosni Dijalozi |
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| Online Access: | http://periodica.fzf.ukim.edu.mk/sd/SD%2012.2%20(2021)/SD%2012.2%2005%20Vladimir%20F.%20Pryakhin%20-%20%20PANDEMIC%20LESSONS%20THE%20NEED%20FOR%20A%20NEW%20POLITICAL%20THINKING.pdf |
| Summary: | With the beginning of the new Cold War, the new political thinking so popular during perestroika initiated in the USSR, disappeared in the political vocabulary. This happened for a number of reasons, such as: Gorbachev’s new political thinking has practically fulfilled its
historical destination to unite the international community for preventing the threat of a nuclear war; after the elimination in the 90-s of the direct danger of a world war interstate rivalry, political competition for spheres of influence, markets and sources of raw- and
energy materials resumed; integrative ideology was replaced by nationalist, separatist and consumerist ideological clichés; and the idea of a civilizational split began to be intensively implanted. The COVID-19 pandemic revealed the illusion that with the end of the Cold War all global threats disappeared. It became obvious that humanity is increasingly becoming a hostage of scientific and technological progress. The need for joint countering new challenges became more evident than ever. The scientific community returned to the question of what
should be the new thinking to integrate the disintegrated international community. Our vision of such an integrative ideology includes basic components as follows: urgent need for global governance; identification of the optimal forms and for a of increasing the level of global governance; increasing the role of international organizations (in particular, WHO); developing an integrated universally acceptable set of moral principles and values; search for ways to improve inter-civilizational dialogue, overcoming social schism, working out the idea of an interfaith universal church |
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| ISSN: | 1857-7172 1857-8055 |