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TODAY THE FRONT OF SOCIALIST CONSTRUCTION IN THE COUNTRIES WHERE THE COMMUNISTS ARE THE PARTY IN POWER IS SO VAST, COMPRISING A THIRD OF HUMANITY, THAT EVEN FOR THIS PART SOVIET MODEL CANNOT AND SHOULD NOT ANY LONGER BE OBLIGATORY. IN THE REST OF THE WORLD THERE ARE COUNTRIES WHERE IT IS HOPED TO ACHIEVE SOCIALISM WITHOUT COMMUNISTS NECESSARILY BEING THE RULING PARTY. IN OTHERS THE ASVANCE TOWARDS SOCIALISM IS AN OBJECTIVE WHICH DRAWS TOGETHER VARIOUS MOVEMENTS WHICH HAVE NOT YET REACHED ANY MUTUAL AGREEMENT OR EVEN UNDERSTANDING. THE WHOLE SYSTEM IS BECOMING POLYCENTRIC, AND EVEN IN THE COMMUNIST MOVEMENT ITSELF IT IS NOT A SINGLE GUIDE, BUT RATHER OF PROGRESS WHICH IS ACHIEVED BY FOLLOWING PATHS WHICH ARE OFTEN DIFFERENT. ALL POLITICAL SYSTEMS HAVE TO ACCEPT OR ADJUST TO GENERATIONAL CHANGE, COMMUNIST JUST AS INESCAPABLY AS THE LIBERAL CONSTUTIONAL REGIMES. THE PRESENT-DAY COMMUNIST WORLD IS A VERY SUBSTANTIAL PORTION OF HUMANITY. POLYCENTRISM IN THE SOCIALIST WORLD IS PART OF THE VOLATILE POLYCENTRISM OF THE CONTEMPORY WORLD.

Structures for mission have been under review as a result of many factors. In particular have been the widening influences of globalisation, and to a lesser degree, glocalisation. Various models of leadership praxis and structures have been proposed along the way. As Christianity moved farther away from the Christendom model of centralised control to other models of structure and leadership, other paradigms have been proposed along the way. However, one possibility, called the concept of polycentrism, has not been considered with any significant effort. In order to understand polycentrism, this research covered a literature review of seven spheres: (1) the urbanised-economic context; (2) political-ideological associations; (3) globalglocal socio-cultural situations; (4) organisational-leadership contexts; (5) missional movements; (6) the global church; and (7) the journey of the mission agency called the Wycliffe Global Alliance. The application of the concept of polycentrism to the specific context of the Wycliffe Global Alliance has enabled conclusions about the relevance of polycentrism in mission structures that are part of the missio Dei. The study concluded that polycentrism was a very helpful methodology that understood and resolved the inherent tensions and influences brought about by globalisation upon structures in God's mission. The implications shaped what leadership communities look like in terms of values and ideals because of the benefits of polycentrism. Through polycentrism, there has been a deliberate movement away from established centres of power, so that leadership occurred among and with others, while creatively learning together in community. ; http://www.hts.org.za ; am2016 ; Science of Religion and Missiology

How does governing work today? How does society (mis)handle pressing challenges such as armed violence, cultural difference, ecological degradation, economic restructuring, geopolitical shifts, global pandemics, migration flows, and technological change in ways that are democratic, effective, fair, peaceful, and sustainable? This book addresses this key question around the theme of 'polycentrism': i.e. the idea that contemporary governing is dispersed, fluctuating, messy, elusive, and headless. Chapters develop this notion of polycentrism from a broad spectrum of academic disciplines and theoretical approaches. Readers thereby obtain a full coverage of exciting new thinking about how today's world is (mis)ruled. The book distinguishes four paradigms of knowledge about polycentric governing—organizational, legal, relational, structural—and pursues conversations across the divides that normally keep these approaches in separate research communities. These exceptional inter-paradigm exchanges focus especially on issues of techniques (how governing is done), power (what forces drive governing), and legitimacy (whether governing is rightful). Comparisons between the multiple perspectives on polycentric governing highlight, and help to clarify, the distinctive emphases, potentials, and limitations of each approach. In addition, combinations across the diverse theories generate promising novel avenues of thought about polycentrism. Through their engagement with the book, readers can develop their own understandings of governing today and thereby become more empowered political subjects.

The paper represents theoretical research of the phenomenon of polycentrism, particularly its operationalization, manifestation on social scene and its significance in contemporary politics. It is divided into three parts, where the first one provides de-composition of the phenomenon, identifying its essence with centrism, or center of power, attaching to them geopolitical, economic and conditional nature. Various manifestations of geopolitical polycentrism are represented in international context, federal level and national level; economic, representing successful companies on global level; conditional, representing worldwide NGOs, Universities and Media companies; and overall social polycentrism, presenting all of the actors on international (global) scene, in the second part of the paper. In the last part, the significance of the phenomenon of polycentrism is examined, through the justifications of the phenomenon, and the mechanisms which are stimulating it. Keywords: polycentrism, center, power, manifestations, significance.

THE DEVIATION BY VARIOUS NATIONAL COMMUNIST PARTIES FROM STRICT IDEOLOGICAL CONFORMITY IN SEARCHING FOR SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEMS AFFECTING THEIR NATIONS WAS INEVITABLE CONFLICTS WITH MOSCOW DUE TO THIS WAS JUST AS INEVITABLE THIS POLYCENTRISM IS SEEN AS BOTH AN OUTGROWTH AND STRUCTURAL DEFECT OF THE SOVIET UNION'S MODEL OF PROLETARIAW NATIONALISM.