Abstract

In the presented article the authors examine the political and economic and cultural situation in the world in the context of globalization. Special priority is accorded to the coverage of political and economic situation in the world. Because, the twentieth century has demonstrated the power of supranational military- political blocs, the possibility of coalitions of control groups, continental and regional associations, international organizations. At the end of the twentieth century, the contours of «world government» have outlined : some international organizations started performing important political integration functions. The value of the global division of labor has increased in the economic sphere, the role of transnational corporations has increased, which have become powerful forces in the world economy. Having lost the national roots, such corporations operate globally, using local resources and subsidies. The authors noted that the trend of globalization had its influence on the culture as well.Media unites peoples and continents, informing millions of people about the events in different parts of the world, attracting them to various cultural experiences, traditions and customs of exotic tribes and nationalities.Today, there is no doubt, that the desire to solve global problems that affect interests of the peoples of all continents leads to the formation of the world humanistic consciousness. It is proved that during a long period of time the phenomenon of globalization was considered in socio-political theories mainly from the point of economic centrism. As It is the economic sphere, in which the globalization centrism was mostly discovered. The basic classical concepts developed within the economic centrism: theory of imperialism, dependency theory, world system theory. It was marked that the presented economic-centric pictures of globalization cannot explain the cultural-historical diversity of the world that is preserved in the conditions of economic unification and sometimes conflicts with it. Understanding the process of globalization of the world community requires new approaches, able to explain the integration processes in different spheres of public life. The authors have emphasized that today the images of the global world and the theories of globalism are being developed by various scientists: sociologists, anthropologists, philosophers, politologists and historians. However, their views on the phenomenon of globalization differ significantly.