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№ 2018/3

Institutional problems of economic development


PODLIESNA Vasylyna H.1

1Institute for Economics and Forecasting, NAS of Ukraine

Military-economic cycles

Ekon. teor. 2018; 3:45-58https://doi.org/10.15407/etet2018.03.045


ABSTRACT ▼

In ancient times and in the Middle Ages, there were special forms of cyclical military-economic processes, in particular, power cycles, expressed in the synchronism of formation, strengthening, and decline of the ruling dynasties in China and the steppe empires in Mongolia, as well as the cycles of a xenocratic state inherent in the medieval Maghreb. The cycle-forming factor of the interaction between nomads of the central steppes and China is the dynamics of socio-economic and state-forming processes in China. The cyclical interaction between nomads and sedentary farmers of the Medieval Maghreb consisted of the following phases: 1) the conquest and forcible establishment, by the nomads, of the system of exploitation of farmers; 2) relatively stable socio-economic and political interaction between nomads and sedentary agricultural civilizations exploited by the former; 3) the destruction of the institutional practices of exploitation of sedentary civilizations by nomads, accompanied by the aggravation of political or military-political conflicts.
In capitalist society, mature forms of military-economic cycles unfold. The reasons for the deployment of military-economic cycles under capitalism include: political and economic (competition for opportunities to increase surplus value); institutional (reduced efficiency of the exploitation system); instrumental-and-ideological (ideological influence, organized by the dominant social groups to achieve political and economic goals); and mental-and-psychological ones (easily motivated propensity for mass aggression of generations with no military experience). As a result of the cumulative influence of the above causes, contradictions emerge that serve as a basis for the start of wars. The current global socio-economic crisis and the aggravation of geopolitical contradictions, taking into account the accumulated global nuclear arsenal, threaten the survival of mankind, making it necessary to create appropriate institutional conditions to replace military-economic cycles with peaceful forms of the resolution of social contradictions.

Keywords: military-economic cycles, power cycles, cycles of the xenocratic state


JEL: O 100

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