After 1945, the world has more than 1,000 international conflicts, including more than three hundred - armed.International conflict - a clash of two and / or more parties in the system of international relations, pursuing different goals are mutually exclusive.One of the longest in the twentieth century was a post-war conflict between the USSR and the USA, which later became known as the "cold war."Each of the parties involved in the conflict, seek to influence global political events.International conflicts often take the form of a military confrontation.The largest-scale and devastating war international conflict in which were involved one way or another, all over the state, known as the "Second World War" lasted from 1939 to 1945.
Once ended the era of the "cold war", many thought that international conflicts are gone, but in fact the opposite has increased the number of regional and local hard confrontations, often turns into a military phase.An example of this are the Armeno-Azerbaijani conflict, the events in Yugoslavia, the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict, the war between Russia and Georgia in 2008 and others.
long time studying international conflicts mainly historical science, but since the mid-twentieth century, with the works of Sorokin and K. Wright, they were regarded as a kind of social conflict.
reasons for such conflicts, scientists see the following: competition States;differences in the national interest;claims to certain territories;social injustice;the uneven distribution of natural resources;intolerant perception of one party to another;personal hostility and other leaders.
is generally recognized as an international conflict yet because of differences in political, economic, social, ideological, diplomatic, military and international legal attributes, properties and features.
interstate conflicts can be divided into four stages: 1) awareness of the problem;2) the escalation of tensions;3) to exert pressure to resolve the problem;4) military action to resolve the issue.
conflicts between states have their own specifics, causes, function, dynamics and consequences.International conflicts are the positive and negative features and consequences.The positive is the prevention of stagnation in the relations between the two countries;encouraging constructive search for a way out of this situation;determination of the degree of divergence of interests and goals;prevent more serious conflicts, and ensure the stable existence of conflict occurrence manner of lesser intensity.
The negative effects of international conflicts include: violence, instability and unrest;they increase the state of stress in the population of the participating countries;the use of inefficient policies and more.
Typology of international conflicts is carried out on various grounds, and divide them:
- the number of participants shared the conflicts in bilateral and multilateral;
- the degree of extension - on local and global;
- for the lifetime of the - short-term and long-term;
- for assets used in conflicts - armed and unarmed;
- depending on the reasons - economic, territorial, religious, ethnic and other;
Terrorism, which spreads currently in the world, assumes the character of a substitute for a new world war and becoming a global problem, it forces public authorities to resort to tough enough measures, which in turn raises the question of expanding the prerogatives and powers of the States and their associations inthe fight against the global terrorist threat.
