After the empires: do we need the end of history?

Abstract

The competition of the world empires developed not only in the military, but also in the peaceful sphere - in science and technology, trade and culture. Accumulating the resources of controlled territories for this purpose, empires achieved outstanding results which even nowadays help humanity to solve global problems of hunger, interethnic conflicts, epidemics, and cosmic threats. Large-scale political transformations of the 20th century only marginally affected the degree of influence of the former metropolitan countries on world processes. The continuing competition between the post-imperial associations is an effective tool for countering the common threats to humanity.