Views of the military-political leadership of the United States and NATO on the development of modern world political processes

10.54398/1818510Х_2023_3_201

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The article analyzes the views of the military-political leadership of the United States and NATO on the development of modern world political processes for the period up to 2030. The purpose of this study is to review the main provisions of strategic planning documents by the world's leading actors involved in these processes. The article uses methods of foreign policy and strategic analysis, a comparative (comparative) method and a systematic approach. Other scientific methods used in the study were structural and functional analysis to study the structural components of the world's leading centers of power, as well as a geopolitical approach. The author of the article came to the conclusion that the United States defines itself only as a global power with global interests. The United States has actually reanimated the policy of dividing lines, now not only in Europe, as it was in the time of G. Truman, but also at the global level, contrasting itself and its satellites with the rest of the world community. The key goal of NATO is to ensure collective defense based on the 360-degree approach. The Concept defines three main tasks of the Alliance: deterrence and defense; crisis prevention and crisis management; security based on cooperation. According to the authors of the Concept, these tasks complement each other in order to ensure the collective defense and security of all Member States. The analysis of the above documents indicates a new stage of understanding and strategic planning of the activities of the military-political bloc of NATO, led by the United States, as well as their own, focused on active participation in the transformation of the modern world order and the restoration of their leading role in the world community.

Keywords

• modern world order
• political processes
• national security strategy
• USA
• Ukraine
• NATO
• world actors
• American-centric system
• geopolitics
• anti-Russian coalition
• foreign policy
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Acknowledgments

the work was carried out with the support of the Research Center for National Security Problems.

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