Новые подходы к исследованию феномена глобализации в зарубежной науке

The authors, based on a review of the latest foreign scientific literature on the problems of globalization, consider the emerging trends in its research. Some new views on understanding globalization and highlighting its essential characteristics are shown. Among the most significant features of globalization, Western researchers emphasize its dynamic nature, depending on a combination of social, economic and political factors. In general, the works of Western scientists and specialists on globalization have implemented an objective, comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of this phenomenon. However, the economic-centric view still dominates, when the essence of globalization and global processes is reduced mainly to its economic aspect. New topics in research such as global risks, the role of information technology in global processes, possible consequences of globalization are considered mainly in the economic context in connection with the process of development of the global economy. The analysis of these works allowed us to state the growing diversity of methodological approaches used by Western scientists to the study of globalization. Among them are transdisciplinarity, consideration of its multidimensionality, multi-aspect character of globalization, the relationship of globalism with geopolitics and geo-economics. The most productive is the use of civilizational, anthropological, institutional, constructivist and evolutionary approaches.