GEOSTRATEGIC POSITIONING ECONOMICALLY DEVELOPED COUNTRIES IN THE MODERN WORLD

Geostrategic positioning of the state—applied substructure of political geography and geopolitics that investigate the forming of independent state’s functions and azimuths of its international relations. Present article explores the general regulations of advanced states positioning on the modern political map of the world (spatial compression of world economy, the composition of states’ geopolitical “powers,” structure and dynamics of “World Order” systems, and so on). Simultaneously, on the example of the USA and Japan, are demonstrating that any country’s icon and its position on the geospacer and time quite unique and depend on combinations of different factors on national and global levels.