The Phenomenon of Social Conflict and International Relations

Abstract

The article examines the phenomenon of social conflict as one of the driving motives of human life. Based on the principle of historicism of scientific research, social conflict is presented as the focus of social relations in the work of thinkers of different eras and heterogeneous approaches. As a critical moment in social relations, the conflict is interpreted in different ways in social theoretical concepts - from having a positive charge as a source of progress, to bringing to naught the development of society along the ascending line, that is as a factor of regression. The author is inclined to associate questions of the prospects of social conflict, namely, its resolution, with the theory of human needs. It is the consideration of the hierarchy of values and the establishment of vital priorities that makes it possible to satisfy the needs for security, recognition, identity, social affiliation, welfare, freedom, etc., the significance of which lies in the fact that in the process of resolving the conflict, the question of the degree of satisfaction of the need, depending on its place in the hierarchical ladder, as well as the depth of the solution of the controversial problem becomes clear.