The contours of a new world order: changing the principles and rules of competition for energy resources

The article attempts to analyze the financial crisis of 2008, the subsequent stagnation of the world economy with the development of the global political crisis. The author concludes that the crisis is not cyclical, but systemic one. Not individual mechanisms and institutions are subject to change, but the entire model of the world economy. Its actors are not transnational corporations, but nation states. The «flat world» of Thomas Friedman turned out to be an illusion; Westphalian format is back. Global competition has once again reached the level of interstate relations. The competition is for the natural rent, mainly for the energy resources that are the engine of global economic growth.