Globalization and geopolitics: spiritual and value basis of contradictions

The article refers to the positive trends in the globalization model which are related to the development of information and communication sphere, implementation of innovative projects in the economic, political and spiritual aspects of civil life of the world’s countries and peoples, and to the extension of space for the exchange of any material benefits and spiritual values among them. However, at present certain groups of states are more than ever aiming to represent their integration process as a movement towards diluting the notions of the values of sovereignty, national, state and cultural identity. The author states that the moral, ethical and legal principles of globalization mostly aimed to provide for sustainable development of the world civilization are substantially ignored. Identifying the causes of contradictions between the globalization and geopolitical processes, the author pays attention both to the civilization and cultural, and formation aspects of the said processes, to the essence of the notion of “civilization”, including the world and “local” civilization, to the identification of bases thereof, and states that they are laid not only in the nature of manufacture and socio-political system, but also in the cultural and worldview features. The article points out that within the context of today’s geopolitical opposition of the “civilization behaviors”, the conflict consists in the adherence to certain political forces and aligning with the customary ideas of the unique model of the world civilization, namely the Western “Atlantic” one, and the desire to impose the values thereof on other, so called “uncivilized” peoples, “local civilizations”; and in this regard, cultural, moral and fundamental spiritual values of the latter are ignored along with numerous rules of the international law.