Kuznetsova, A.I. The role of national identity in the international relations at the current stage

Abstract: This article includes an evaluation of the national identity factor in the global policy and international relations. It is noted that national identity facilitates definition of the development vector of a nation in a political space, and the identification differences are able to cause intensive and socially dangerous international conflicts. The co-related development of national self-conscience and the formation of the culture of the particular people is formed within the system of relations with other peoples. At the first stages of the social evolution the relations between the peoples form one of the important factors for the formation and development of national identity and culture. It is through the contact and relations between literally peoples (as groups of humans) that the process of formation of a human being starts.

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