Zvonareva, O.S. Globalization and interaction between civilizations: political and legal aspects.

Abstract: Globalization processes influence individuals and peoples, states and civilizations, and it is no surprise that globalization becomes one of the most topical issues in many social sciences. The author of this article expresses her own position on how globalization shows itself in political and legal spheres, explains how the new phenomena of global (world) power come into being, how they are influenced by cultural and civilization factors, and most of all by role of the Western civilization, reviews the role of the Western concept of the human rights and of “global law”.