Objective of the study is to show that Russian culture, which bearer traditional spiritual and moral values genotype civilization, has now become main obstacle American hegemonism. At same time, it important identify complex processes current socio-cultural dynamics culture factors can make epicenter countering information cultural aggression against Russia. The methodological basis research in...

With Huntington’s warning of a “clash of civilizations” following the end of the cold war, “cultural pluralism” has become important for enhancing world peace and supporting development. In this paper, cultural pluralism is viewed as a “knowledge society” problem, where intercultural knowledge is produced, disseminated and used within an ecosystem of mutual understanding and respect. The author...

Samuel Huntington’s The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order has sent intellectual shock waves through the international affairs academic and policy communities. According to the editors of Foreign Affairs, the article that Huntington (1993a) wrote in 1993 generated more discussion in three years than any other article they had published since the 1940s. And deservedly so: of ...

With Huntington’s warning of a “clash of civilizations” following the end of the cold war, “cultural pluralism” has become important for enhancing world peace and supporting development. In this paper, cultural pluralism is viewed as a “knowledge society” problem, where intercultural knowledge is produced, disseminated and used within an ecosystem of mutual understanding and respect. The author...

In 2005, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, launched a new initiative called Alliance of Civilizations which is co-sponsored by the Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey and the Prime Minister José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero of Spain and supported by the British Prime Minister Tony Blair. The motivation behind the Alliance of Civilizations Initiative is to bridge divi...