Abstract: The subject of this study is statistical data related to the illegal immigration in the UK, as well as the opinion of scientists regarding the causes and consequences of these processes. The goal is to structure the available data, identify the correlation between events, identify causes and consequences, and indicate possible ways to solve the problem. Methods of statistical analysis, induction, and comparison are used in this work. The study used a systematic approach, which resulted in the following conclusions: the arrival of illegal migrants to the UK in most cases occurs through the La Manche Channel; among the positive consequences of an increase in the number of migrants are: an increase in unskilled labor, unpredictable economic growth in 2021; among the negative, we can note an increase in the number of crimes committed by non-citizens of the country, in comparison with the number of crimes committed by citizens. The novelty of the study is: the dynamics of migration in the period 2019-2021 are revealed; it was revealed that the increase in the dynamics of migration from Iran to the UK in the period 2019-2021 was associated with the pandemic of coronavirus infection, a drop in living standards in Iran and the socio-political situation in Afghanistan; it was found that the consequences of illegal migration for the UK were unpredictable economic growth in 2021, as well as an increase in the crime rate among non-citizens of the country.

Keywords: crime, labor force, illegal migration, Iran, English Channel, Great Britain, Economy, pandemic, standard of living, migration

Abstract: The research is devoted to the issues of the transformation of understanding of the UN peacekeeping activities which are characterized by the appearance of “humanitarian interventions” as a new form of peacekeeping operations. As many other processes and phenomena, caused by globalization, they have both positive moments and a negative feature of “privatization” of such actions by the USA and NATO, which are trying to establish a detached legal base for such operations execution, which not only contradicts the universally recognized legislation, but also sometimes ignores it. The methodology of the research is based on the system, structural-functional, comparative-historical, comparative-political, geopolitical and cultural-civilizational approaches, and the methods of analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction, modeling, and observation. The global transformation of international relations in the late twentieth – the early twenty-first century had led to the change of the conceptual approaches towards the problems of international security. The end of the “cold war” stirred the contradictions, which had been deterred by two super powers. The world community overcame the threat of a global conflict between two opposing political and military blocks: the NATO and the countries of the Warsaw Pact, and faced the danger of extension of unpredictable in their consequences and hardly controlled armed interethnic and interconfessional conflicts in different parts of the planet.

Keywords: international relations, foreign policy, peacemaking, humanitarian interventions, diplomacy, peace enforcement, the UN, the USA, interests, security