FOREIGN POLICY INTERESTS AND INTEGRATION TRENDS OF MODERN POWERS

Abstract

The article presents a deep political analysis of the foreign policy interests of modern States and ways to achieve them in the context of global political processes. Based on the systematization of data on current trends in world politics, an argument is made in favor of the fact that the accelerated growth of diversification of the entire international system leads to a sharp increase in the number of its actors and the interdependencies that arise between them. Based on this fact, when studying foreign policy categories, it becomes necessary to consider the foreign policy not of individual countries, but of their integration associations formed to lobby for national interests and formed in the context of globalization. A detailed study of international integration has revealed that today in the world of big politics it is not possible to make decisions entirely solely on your own. As examples, we analyzed various integration associations of our time, such as the European Union, NAFTA, ASEAN, and BRICS. As a result, it turned out that the combination of external policies and interests of countries, and in some cases corporations that are members of these organizations, leads to great geopolitical and geo-economic success, which indicates the positive nature of such macro-regional and even TRANS-regional syntheses.