Nº 2 (2024)

The article dwells on the factors of the ethnic conflicts in Mexico as an important element of the political process in the country. The social agrarian claims attributable to the agriculture modernization policy and cutting of the peasantry public supporting measures, gave place to the escalating ethnic rhetoric, politicization of ethnicity and appealing to the ancestral lands rights since the 1970s. The trend is contextualized by the changes in the political opportunities structure, including the democratic transition in Mexico and the evolution of the native peoples and ethnic minorities international legislation.

The article analyses the problems of Russia's arms supplies to Latin America in the period from 2012 to 2017 in the context of NATO's attempts to attract the states of the region as arms suppliers to the Ukrainian side in the armed conflict between Moscow and Kiev. The motives of the co-optation of Latin American countries into the conflict. Five levels of the Latin American community's response to Russia's special military operation have been identified, of which the highest is the level of specific political decisions. The refusal of arms supplies (including those previously supplied by Russia) by Latin American States to the conflict zone should be considered as the most striking example of a response at the fifth level and a symptom of strategic neutrality as the dominant equivalent reaction of the Latin American community to the conflict.

This article reveals the socio-economic factors of centrifugal tendencies in the modern Spain (the Basque Country case) from 2009 to 2020. A correlation is revealed between the preferences of Basques regarding the territorial and political structure of Spain and a number of socio-economic factors such as GDP per capita, the unemployment rate, the level of average wages and the Consumer Price Index. The article also acquaints readers with the attitude of the Basques towards the regional government and their assessment of the economic situation in the region. The author concludes that one of the key factors is the Consumer Price Index, since as the price level rises, separatist sentiments also grow. Another important factor is the attitude of citizens towards the regional government: despite the assessment of the economic situation (bad or good), if the attitude towards the regional government is positive, centrifugal tendencies become more intense.

The article is devoted to the history of cooperation between Latin Ameri can states within the framework of the largest integration associations in the region, CELAC. Particular attention is paid to the prospects for the development of the Commu nity at the present stage of international relations and its interaction with the political structure of the OAS. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the fact that for the first time in recent years, the article analyzes the mechanisms of functioning of CELAC and legal documents regulating the domestic and foreign policy activities of the block.

With the end of World War II, British political circles hoped that Great Britain would retain its place as a world power. In this regard, great importance was attached to the restoration of influence in Latin America, which had been seriously shaken during the war. A certain problem in achieving this goal was the territorial claims of Great Britain in Antarctica, which conflicted with the desire of Argentina and Chile to achieve recognition of their own Antarctic sectors. The article is written on the basis of documents from the British National Archives, most of which are being introduced into scientific circulation for the first time.

The author offers an overview of the content of the work written by A.Gonzalez Levaggi, dedicated to the analysis of the maritime strategies of great powers in the 21st century — from the Indian and Pacific Oceans to the South Atlantic region.