CONSERVATIVE EVALUATION OF EAST EUROPE IN EUROPEAN UNION AS THE GLOBALIZATION PHENOMENON IN «STATECRAFT: STRATEGIES FOR A CHANGING WORLD» BY MARGARET THATCHER

Abstract

Margaret Thatcher’s artistic heritage is one of the most vivid manifestations of topicality of conservative movement as the modern evaluation system of the world political reality. The conservative and later neoconservative ideological complexes were developed with maximum accuracy for the latest world reality in the perspective and retrospective. Margaret Thatcher’s research object and conservative evaluation object are very broad systemically and include the questions of the «Cold War» evaluation, the role of the USA as the superpower and world leader, Asia and Europe achievements and values, world conflicts, the role of modern national state and the anomaly of state development, terrorism, religion and human rights. Margaret Thatcher takes into account the fact that globalization and regionalization problems are basic questions and most important tendencies of the world development. Margaret Thatcher’s evaluation is entirely conservative and at the same time somewhat emotional, it corresponds to ideological conviction if it is dictated by the reality and the productivity of idea. In the part of retrospective analysis of the theory Margaret Thatcher underlines the role of technical and technological revolution in political and economic world development and the role of empire as a forming factor of world globalization model of political space organization. This model was used for British Empire expansion. Margaret Thatcher doesn’t exaggerate the significance of economic factors for the formation of globalization processes, their current and perspective conditions. The economic  part  of  world  development  processes  became  a  driving  force  and  the «locomotive» of the world history of telecommunicate revolution. After the achievement of triumph by these tendencies the economic globalization processes gave way to political ones as the most important. Conservatives consider political processes to be system organizing and system transforming factors under any condition. Probably the complex and systemic evaluation of the globalization processes by conservatism doctrine is adjusted by the marginal modifications of world political space changes. Conservative research takes into consideration the meaning and character of changes of world political space or any fragment of this space for working-out the most accurate estimate. Margaret Thatcher notes the bifurcation of world development in the period of formation of new tendencies and affirms that it is a new source of antagonisms as a driving force for further development. At the same time the ambiguity of economic role of globalization cannot be reduced to the indiscriminate capitalism criticism. Capitalism is not criticized as the way of production and the way of organization of global economy. On the contrary, capitalism, as any other world economy organization model, is good, if it is based on the strategic government management. However, capitalistic bifurcation of world economy development demonstrates the rightfulness of neoconservative idea of «world power» importance in newest modern realities. Systematic and invariable success of states using this system of economic and political values, such as the USA, is the example. And in this context globalization processes determine the nature of world order and represent driving forces and factors of its further development and possible transformation in the conditions of changing of globalization nature. Margaret Thatcher summarizes the globalization meaning and notes the necessity to glorify the triumph of global capitalism based on the free business activity, though shocks are inevitable. Margaret Thatcher also considers important actions aimed at making the profits from free trade accessible to all states in the world. The European Union is not successful project as state and superstate organization model. Thus the conservatism in Margaret Thatcher’s work appears as one of the most promising socio-political movements of modern world. The conservatism, summarizes Margaret Thatcher, is able to explain the most difficult phenomena and contradictions of political reality and suggest really promising political models and ideals.