East — West: harmony and dichotomy

Abstract

 East — West dichotomy has traditionally remained one of the main problems of cultural studies, political philosophy, political science, and geopolitics. In the political and legal aspect, the opposition, starting with  Aristotle, whose ideas were developed by the analysis of the despotism of  East by Sh. Montesquieu, and then by K. Marx in his theory of the “Asian mode of production”, was formed into a Western European and American liberal tradition projected onto research totalitarian dictatorships of the first  half of the XX century. At the center of the political concept under consideration is the antagonism, confrontation and confrontation of the traditionally “liberal West”  and the equally traditionally “authoritarian East”,  which shaped and strengthened several civilizational and political-legal  myths. In modern conditions, we are talking not only, and probably not so much about traditional dichotomy as about interaction and convergence, including to counter global threats.