Karyakin, V.V. Modern crises and conflicts: specific features of their development and prevention.

Abstract: The article is devoted to the analysis of sources for the formation, scenarios of development and possible directions for the regulation and prevention of the modern conflicts and crises. As the experience of forecasting the geopolitical situation of the late years has shown, the forming crises and conflicts cannot be diagnosed and recognized in a timely manner. The examples of the above are numerous “color revolutions” and protest movements, which took place in the post-Soviet territory and the Middle East, where the political expert community was not ready, in spite of repeating prerequisites and scenarios for the organization of such “revolutions”. The example of the above is the wave of the “Arabian revolutions” in the North African states, protest movements in Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Georgia and Moldova, which lead to elimination of the ruling regimes. To provide the vivid image, the triumph of the social networks caused the fiasco of political processes, where were applied back in the bipolar period, when two superpowers defined the main parameters of the global development, while the member states of military and political alliances followed the block discipline and actively supported the policies of the USSR or the USA in the international arena. Back in these times the forecasts involved linear extrapolation of the development in the situation at the national and international levels from the current point in the situation. Currently the situation is changed profoundly. The social and political processes in national and international system have became non-linear and turbulently manifested, due to the possibilities for almost all of the members of social networks to influence the development of political processes. All of the above considerably complicated revealing and diagnosis of the forming conflicts and crises.

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