Keywords
politics;
selection;
democracy;
risks and threats;
a crisis;
conflicts;
national interests;
motivation;
values.
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Abstract
Modern political elites are experiencing very dramatic changes associated with the transformation of their traditional codes of behavior, which were worked out in the era of a developed industrial society. However, the more frequent crises (2008 and 2022) indicate that the world of elites is faced with a serious choice - proven methods of professional activity no longer work, and personnel competence is insufficient to objectively assess and make adequate decisions. The crisis has already affected such fundamental foundations of the world order as democratic institutions and national security. Failure of functioning in these areas is fraught with serious reputational and socio-political losses. Added to this was the conflict of values and meanings. As a result, the motivation of their behavior began to change in power structures, and in the selection of elites, there was not just an obvious stagnation, but a real personnel crisis, threatening the loss of basic professional competencies. However, the growing threat of a global systemic crisis is not felt by the ruling elites, who do nothing to prevent it and continue to pursue their usual pre-crisis policy. They will no longer succeed in ignoring objective reality in this way. Sooner or later there will come a «moment of truth» when they will have to face the truth. The present work is devoted to the analysis of this problem.
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