Bunevich D.S. The 2014 Crimea crisis and the construction of a new architecture of international relations

Abstract: The article investigates the process of the erosion of Yalta-Potsdam system of international relations of the post-Cold War era. The world community was in accordance with the fact that Washington has played the leading role in all matters relating to international security. Aggressive US foreign policy in the Balkans and the Middle East led to a significant weakening of international institutions and the erosion of the principles of international law. Destructive role of the United States as the sole superpower became more and more apparent over time. The methodological basis of the study constitute a systemic, structural-functional, comparative-historical, comparative political, geopolitical, cultural and civilizational approaches, methods of analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction, modeling, observation.It is concluded that the Crimean crisis has shown the need for new rules of international coexistence. In Crimea, Russia challenged the existing world order, which is based on US hegemony. And Russia, despite the sanctions deployed against it, did not find itself in diplomatic isolation. If Russia successfully overcomes the political and economic pressure from the US and its allies, and mobilizes and structures the growing global discontent with the American hegemony, then the world would be facing a fundamentally new outlook. The author predicts that the new (Crimean) the system of international relations will follow the principles of the Vienna system.

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