Westernisation and pan-Americanisation as socio-political technologies for building a unipolar world
Abstract
The article analyses the trends in the use of social technologies of Westernisation and Americanisation in the course of implementing the strategy of pan-Atlanticism, which involves the construction of a unipolar world that ensures the global hegemony of the USA. It is noted that with the collapse of the USSR, a state of the socialist model, Westernisation has become a stable trend in the construction of a global world in which the principles of financial and economic interdependence are determined by the most economically and politically powerful players. The leading content of Westernisation is Americanisation – the imposition of American models of socio-economic and political structure on the world. It is noted that one of the most important tasks of the Americanisation of the world is not simply to subordinate the world to its influence and spread its civilisational principles, but to use the wealth of the conquered territories in its own interests. After the collapse of the USSR, the policy of global hegemony of the USA is reduced to the desire of America to be a leader. At the same time, all attempts to improve intra-American life, to create new meanings that determine the behaviour of ordinary Americans, have not yet brought success. The USA demonstrates an inability to carry out the dominant mission of leadership. A whole series of new efforts must be made to strengthen the American role and the Western community in the world. It is emphasised that a new confrontation has emerged between the pan-Atlanticists, who constitute a minority of states, and the world majority. It is suggested that the accelerated development of China at the end of the 20th century has alarmed the USA. At the beginning of the 21st century, criticism began to be directed against Russia. Western strategists insist that Russia’s desire to protect its sovereignty should not be underestimated. At the same time, nothing so far indicates a change in the USA course, which is destructive for the entire world.
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