Published: 15 March 2015
The Article illustrates that in the conditions of globalization as an alternative to unipolar world ideology based on the state institutionalization as the basic and inter-state relations as the backbone, the ideology and the concept of a multipolar interaction of modern local civilizations is formed. And that causes the increasing demand of civilized approach to contemporary politics, particularly in the developing world. A civilizational approach to Russian politics brings political science discourse in the framework of a wider discourse, rather than a system-state one. A review of the evolution of the civilized approach is given. A comparison matrix of basic concepts of Western policy in the centrist and civilizational projection is offered.