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THROUGHOUT the last three decades, the system of international relations has changed beyond recognition. Classical bipolarity has become a fact of history while the world has become aware of paradoxes of globalization and transformation of world politics. On the one hand, the human community has become an indivisible and interconnected whole. Globalization suggests cooperation in the face of common problems; adoption of common norms and rules of conduct in world politics; improvement of the old and creation of new efficient international institutions. On the other hand, globalization, responsible for the uneven development pace and emergence of a vanguard group of states and transnational forces (including the TNCs) which enjoys all the advantages offered by globalization, exacerbates a wide range of problems and causes grave economic and political crises and social upheavals.
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