Global
Crisis in the Context of World Development Megatrends
and Prospects of the Russian Policy
The nature of a global economic
crisis is considered as one in a series of financial
crises, in the context of Kondratieffs’ cycles and the world-system
paradigm. The core megatrend generating crises is designated
as a permanent backlog of development of institutes and practices of
maintenance of the economic responsibility from growth of speed, density and
scales of economic interactions and processes. Prospects of expansion and overcoming of the global crisis are
presented by means of the concept of three Megatrends of world development (I –
Westernisation—Globalization; II – Protest—Isolationism; III
- Partnership on the democratic and humanistic basis). Key requirements to the
future institutes and practices of maintenance of the economic responsibility
at different levels are formulated. Probable forks and
scenarios of the Russian political future are presented
in the context of three crises: 1) the world economic crisis; 2) the hidden
systemic crisis growing in Russia; and 3) the expected socio-political crisis.