traditionalization

The paper is concerned with specificity of the socio-cultural integration as a tool for resolving ethno-political identity-based conflicts in the North Caucasus. The author considers the principle factors of the identity-based conflicts and emphasizes destabilizing role of the politicization of ethnicity. Among the systemic conditions of the regional identity-based conflicts escalation, the author calls: civic identity crisis, traditionalization, ethnic tensions.

In this article, the author considers a problem which is extremely urgent for modern Russia – the specifics of the archaization of the political culture of traditionalization and the archaization of transnational relations in the North Caucasus region. The author analyzes the main reasons for the traditionalization and archaization of interethnic relations of the region, their influence on the socio-political processes in the North Caucasus republics.