Humanities & Social Sciences 6 (2015 8) 1255-1267 ~ ~ ~ УДК 316.485 Geopolitical Confl icts as a Result of Transformation of the Modern World Order: Reality and Prospects Ekaterina V. Sidorenko* Siberian Federal University 79 Svobodny, Krasnoyarsk, 660041, Russia Received 15.12.2014, received in revised form 29.01.2015, accepted 29.04.2015 This article explores the current direction of modern geopolitics associated with confl icts of our time. <...> In particular, attention is paid to the analysis of the origins of the aggressive policy of the leading world countries, especially the United States. <...> The authors argue that one of the principal causes of today’s regional confl icts that could potentially develop into the world confl icts is the concept of “universal values.” The author focuses on the fact that the initiator of such confl icts may be the subjects of globalization. <...> The threat of a geopolitical confl ict is determined by the transnational information networks uniting the whole world space because ubiquitousness of the extremely intensive mass media and relatively high geographic mobility contribute to the emergence of zones of irrationality. <...> The line between the internal and interstate confl icts existed for a long period of time, although it was not too severe. <...> With the end of the Cold War this line rapidly began to get blurred: it is the limited confl icts of the internal internationalized nature that have become the main type of the military confrontation in the 90’s. <...> At this, the internal internationalized confl icts have combined the most dangerous features of both international and internal confl icts. <...> The Western policy of globalization aimed at the destruction of national cultures and practices of globalization in many ways is defi ned by the subjects of the globalization pressure seeking to impose their own standards to the world community. <...> One of the most dangerous manifestations of the globalization pressure is the policy of “double standards”, the display of which is the use of force in international relations and the willingness to apply it in defi ance of the international law. <...> Fundamentals of stability of the modern system, its viability and activity are declared as derivatives of the state of the American resources, political will and intellect. <...> At the beginning of the 21st century for the fi rst time in a hundred years foreign countries started talking about the empire and imperial thinking <...>