The political development of the contemporary world is the result of interrelation, contradiction, interaction and unity of opposites among many actors. The factors affecting its development are complex, including primary and secondary factors, persistent factors and temporary factors. ?
1. National interests?
Interest relationship is the most fundamental factor that affects the behavior of various international political actors in contemporary world politics. For all countries, the national interest is always the most basic motivation and priority factor of the country's foreign behavior. Therefore, national interests have always been the most enduring and influential factor in contemporary world politics. Although there are many factors that affect inter-state relations and international relations, it is often the national interest that plays a decisive role in the end, and all other factors must give way to and obey the national interest factor. For example, the fundamental reason why the United States launched the Iraq war on March 20, 2003 was to gain its economic, political, strategic and security interests. ?
2. National strength?
Any country will strive to defend and seek its own interests, but because of the different strength of each country, the ways and means to defend and seek its own interests are different, and its influence on world politics is also different. After World War II, two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, were formed. On this basis, the bipolar pattern of world politics and the decades-long Cold War have been formed. With the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the United States became the only superpower in the world, the bipolar structure collapsed, and world politics appeared a situation of one superpower and many powers and a trend of multipolarization. ?
3. National strategy?
The formulation and implementation of national strategy, especially the international strategy of big countries, has the most direct and important influence on world politics. In a sense, the Cold War is the result of the US-Soviet strategy of pursuing world hegemony and the resulting contradictions and conflicts. 2/kloc-0 At the beginning of the 20th century, American unilateralism and the strategy of dominating the world order intensified many contradictions. The outbreak of the Iraq war is related to Iraq's problems, but it is mainly determined by the national strategy of the United States. ?
4. State relations?
The relationship between countries, especially the relationship between big countries, has always restricted the development of world politics. If their relationship is eased and coordinated, the world will have a peaceful and stable situation. On the contrary, the tension and deterioration of its relations will even lead to conflicts, cold wars and hot wars, and the world will fall into war. ?
5. International organizations?
International organizations, including intergovernmental and non-governmental international organizations, especially the United Nations, play an important role in coordinating relations between countries, easing international contradictions, resolving international disputes, regulating international conflicts, maintaining world peace and promoting world development and stability. ?
6. International events?
Major international events, especially the outbreak and end of various wars, and international conferences, agreements or treaties held for this purpose often become turning points in the development of world politics. Although the drastic changes in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe did not lead to war, the event itself had a far-reaching impact on the development of world politics because of its great significance. ?
7. World economy?
After the end of the Cold War, with the deepening of economic globalization and the rapid development of the new scientific and technological revolution, economic factors have an increasing influence on world politics.