Introduction. The unipolar model of international relations is experiencing instability, intensified by the contradictions of the hegemon and the new centers of power. The hegemon is experiencing a split of the elite on issues of domestic and foreign policy, which allows us to talk about the end of the upward cycle of globalization and the disintegration trend, the need to build a multipolar model.

Materials and methods. The research methodology is based on general scientific research methods, such as analysis of Russian and foreign literature, comparison, inductive and deductive methods.

Discussion. Western globalism, while maintaining financial and political hegemony, weakens the real economic power of the United States, which expressed in the export of capital to states with cheap labor. American TNCs, whose production chains are located in Asia, being at the supranational level, have lost their state affiliation. This phenomenon has split the American elite into globalists (Democrats) and statesmen (Republicans), who are fighting for the preservation or dismantling of the Westphalian system of international relations.

Results of the study. The decisive role in the preservation of the Westphalian system played by the result of the confrontation between transnational and national elites.

Conclusion. World politics is characterized by the struggle of opposing systems — corporatist and statesmanlike. The beneficiaries of “Western” globalization and the concept of postmodern social theory are transnational corporations and banks due to the focus of this phenomenon on dismantling the institution of the state and strengthening corporatism. The interest of maintaining States as the main actors in international relations reflects national capital due to pressure from expansionist TNCs that monopolize the global market.

Key words: globalization, elites, corporatism, postmodernism, world politics, international relations.
10.56429/2414-4894-2021-37-3-37-49