ANALYZING THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM USING GENERAL SYSTEM ONTOLOGY CONSIDERING THE GLOBAL DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION AND THE LAST DECADES OF GLOBALIZATION

Abstract

The article aims to update the use of the ontology of general systems theory in the analysis of the evolution of the modern system of international relations. The article analyzes the main schools of modern international relations theory, which in one form or another turn to the ontology of general systems theory together with criticism, inherent limitations in the use of the main categories and patterns of general systems theory. The author focused his analysis on the features of the structure of the international system, especially in the aspect of the element-structure dialectic at the macro level of system organization in order to analyze how global trends in the development of international relations are capable of introducing fundamental changes into the global architecture of international politics in the next decades of the 21st century. At the same time, the author proceeded from the presumption that in the second half of the 21st century social crises associated with the uneven distribution of wealth; economic capabilities, caused by the inefficiency of the economic system in the context of the global trend of population decline in the most industrialized countries; as well as the consequences of the environmental crisis associated with the extreme exploitation level of natural resources, foremost in the countries of the so-called global South, maintaining that aforementioned developments had precipitated the landslide transformations of the post bipolar international system.