The article attempts to examine the views of some representatives of US socio-political thought on the political form of government in the post-Soviet states. A significant place in the article is given to the description of the mythologeme about the threat to Western countries from the “global” authoritarianism in the person of Russia, China and other countries. The authors pay special attention to the characteristic features of post-soviet authoritarianism, which distinguish it from the authoritarian regime of the USSR era.

The article is devoted to the analysis of the geopolitical transformation of the world order at the turn of the 20th -21st centuries. The author defines the concept of "geopolitical transformation of the world order", outlines the chronological framework of this process. The article describes the changes and changes in the economy, politics and the spiritual sphere that have occurred in the world community over the past three decades. The author concludes that the geopolitical transformation of the world model is not a one-time act, but a long process. A forecast is given that in the future, mankind is waiting for the next cycle of cardinal transformations, taking into account the development of competition among the world powers.

The realities of modern reality indicate that there are a significant number of unjustified attempts to resolve controversial issues based on the use of force. The article shows the evolutionary processes of the transition of insurgent-guerrilla movements to radical terrorist methods of struggle in the period of 1991-2001 and reveals the reasons for this process. The article analyzes the definition of "international terrorism" in the modern sense, analyzes the characteristic features of international terrorism of the 1990s, the reasons for its spread, new forms of terrorist activity. The following methods were used in the study of the chosen topic: historical-genetic, comparative-historical; problem-chronological, the method of historical modeling. Authors conclude, there is no doubt that all the insurgent-guerilla movements, without exception, pursued their own goals. The most effective way to achieve them at the turn of the century turned out to be precisely terrorist attacks, which, with all the strength of state structures, were not possible to fend off. Thus, terrorism has become a strong weapon in the hands of weak players in the international arena.