Global revolution and “ritualistic state”

The paper describes the effect of globalization processes on society and state. The author emphasizes two emergent types of globalization, such as unification of states and unification of people based on global information and communication technologies and demonstrates the relationship between the development of information exchange and democratization, de-bureaucratization of society. The paper analyzes the problems of fundamentalism, the isolationism, and the resistance to the processes of the people globalization by affected groups using collective and media rituals, restriction of citizens' rights to freedom of information exchange, and access to the Internet at the state level. The author describes a phenomenon of a post-modern “ritualistic” state (or a ceremonial state) that resists the globalization processes at a societal level and attempts to monopolize the information and the spiritual spheres, and the resulting people unification, so-called “the global revolution”. In that respect, it is proposed to extend the international legal guarantees for participation in the exchange of information and free access to means of such exchange as natural human rights, as well as the international legal regulation of the status and activities of global associations, and creation of guarantees for the participants of the global information exchange.