Russian expert: It is necessary to develop an "organic" model of globalization, aimed not at stimulating revolutions, but on interstate cooperation
ArmInfo.At present, the process of transition from a unipolar world to a multi-polar world has intensified, and globalization challenges have also been actualized against this background, and the question of revising the very model of "globalization" has arisen. the chairman of the Commission on Harmonization of Interethnic and Interreligious Relations of the Public Chamber of Russia, Iosif Diskin expressed opinion at the Third International Conference "Traditional Values - Challenges of Modernity" in the Holy See Echmiadzin.
At the same time, the expert recognized that globalization played a positive role at a certain stage in the development of states, stimulating their economic well-being. "However, at the present stage," globalization "has shifted to a new system of liberal values that have been transformed into" a civil religion, "overwhelming the national and traditional foundations of statehood," said Diskin, stressing that all attempts to resist this trend by preserving traditional values meet great pressure from the outside.
At the same time, he stressed that it would be wrong to abandon the idea of "globalization" at least for reasons of economic expediency. "Therefore, it is necessary to develop a new, organic model of globalization, whose goal is not to stimulate revolutionary explosions, but to interstate cooperation." Moreover, modernization based on traditions is more effective than liberal modernization, "the expert concluded.
A member of the Eurasian Expert Club, associate professor of the International Relations Department of Yerevan State University Grigor Balasanyan noted that the issue of preserving national values and traditions was especially actual after the collapse of the USSR. "At that time, external forces, through the activities of various charitable organizations, set a goal to instill foreign values in the post-Soviet space, to split the republics' societies and thereby impede the integration processes in the territory of the former USSR, all this continues to this day. These processes can be characterized as the struggle of civilizations These forces do not need developed republics, they need markets to sell their goods, "the expert concluded.
The Charity Foundation for the Support of Russian Sacred Saints of Mount Athos with the support of the Russian Orthodox Church, the Armenian Apostolic Church, the Center for Strategic Projects, the Association of Students of Russian Universities in Armenia and the Russian Center organize the conference for Science and Culture in Yerevan. The event is implemented with funds provided by the Foundation for Presidential Grants.