Semenova Ludmila Nikolaevna
– Ph.D. in history, Associate Professor, Professor of chair of political science and humanitarian disciplines of Institute of Parlamentarism and Business, Minsk
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The Fringe but not the Periphery. Stability of the International System
At the end of XVIII century England had acquired the colonies Canada, Australia, New Zealand. At the end of XIX century the countries became the settler’s colonies, passed wonderful evolution, transformed in the agrarian-industrial dominions, laboratories of social and political experiments. At the end of XX century the countries continued their evolutionary way, kept and developed all achievements. Today they are the great food states, large producers of raw materials, energy resources, high technology goods. In the contemporary international system these middle states are not leaders, but on the cause of the high level of development they played important stabilizing role.Keywords: international system; the centre of the international system; colonies; dominions; the small great / the middle powers; agro-industrial economy; post-industrial new economy.