Fel'dman P.Ya. Political activities of interest groups in global destabilization conditions

Abstract: The article discusses the impact of interest groups on the authorities in the context of global destabilization, which finds expression in the aggravation of relations between Russia and the West. The author concludes that the role of the media economic interests (companies, financial institutions and enterprises of the military-industrial complex, etc.) in the escalation of international conflict is very significant. However, the author sees these interest groups as the force that can contribute to overcoming global destabilization.The methodological basis of the study is built from a systemic, structural-functional, comparative-historical, comparative political, geopolitical, cultural and civilizational approaches, methods of analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction, modeling, observation.        Despite the fact that interest groups largely are responsible for the aggravation of the geopolitical conflict between Russia and the West, it is with the effort of some of those groups that we can associate the prospects for overcoming the global destabilization. Companies affected by sanctions (ExxonMobil, Chevron, Visa, MasterCard, Coca-Cola, Xerox Corp., "Rosneft" and others) act on the international stage as mediators, whose economic interests can not be fully satisfied under the conditions of a confrontation between the major world powers and their satellites. Western corporations lobbying aimed at softening US foreign policy and the abolition of the anti-Russian sanctions may contribute to the settlement of international conflict and minimize its negative effects.

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