Keywords: new world order, information society, global forces, international law, war, sovereignty, democracy, dictatorship, poles, nuclear blackmail

The struggle to expand the zones of influence of states continues to be a hot topic of international relations despite the fact that in the 20th century as a result of such conflicts humanity was forced to go through the test of two world wars and faced the crisis of the threat of nuclear war. After each world upheaval the victors and their allies established a new world order creating a new legal order and systems of coordination of international relations. But each time the founders of the new world order sowed the seeds of new conflicts with their victory. Using the status of the victor they challenged the historical national justice of the vanquished and promoted a policy of asserting their own “justice”. The purpose of this article is to examine the factors influencing states’ security policies in a paradigm of world order transformation that will create opportunities for nation-states to navigate and respond proportionately to external and internal challenges. Applying comparative-historical inductive and deductive methods of analysis we have identified two tools for building proactive international relations: coercion and consensus the application of which allows for the full implementation of international law. Using new opportunities competitive states were able to stand on their feet and ensure a technological breakthrough by creating special means strategic technologies thanks to which they were able to challenge the existing world order retaining the “right” to threaten the world with special means under their control as Ultima ratio regum (Latin for “the last argument of kings”).

Published: 2022, “Scientific Artsakh”, No. 4(15), Yerevan: AEGMM, p. 400