COLONIAL LEGACY AND FORMS OF EXTERNAL INTERVENTION IN POSTCOLONIAL STATES
Keywords:
colonialism, postcolonialism, transitivity of historical eras, decolonization, civilizational process, military-political intervention, geopolitical influence, Cold War, international organizations, United Nations, NATOAbstract
The article provides a socio-philosophical analysis of the phenomenon of the transitivity of the colonial and postcolonial eras from the perspective of the continuity of colonial institutions and practices characteristic of the colonial period and their transformation into new forms of military, political, and economic control in the postcolonial era.
The relevance of the study is determined by the need to demonstrate how, from the second half of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first century, external influences of post-imperialist states on postcolonial countries have evolved and acquired indirect forms that retain a close connection with approaches established during the colonial period.
At both the theoretical and practical levels, the mechanisms of the transitivity of the colonial and postcolonial eras were examined through an analysis of the nature of political control and forms of state-building in the colonial period and their transformation in the postcolonial period. This was illustrated through cause-and-effect pairs, such as the formation of artificial borders in African colonies as a factor in the deformation of ethno-social ties and the creation of preconditions for long-term military and ethno-political conflicts in the postcolonial period, as well as the absence of independent self-government under colonial rule as a factor contributing to weak legal and democratic civic institutions in the postcolonial period.
Thus, the article substantiates that the postcolonial period, in the socio-philosophical dimension, is not an independent stage of the historical process. Rather, it represents its direct continuation, inheriting the negative impact of colonial practices on postcolonial societies, which in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries has manifested in the form of interventions by international actors and national states in the internal affairs of postcolonial countries in order to obtain political and economic control by indirect means.
