Cross-cultural interaction vs geopolitical culture: monograph (Кросс-культурные коммуникации vs геополитическая культура)

CROSS-CULTURAL 
INTERACTION 
VS GEOPOLITICAL 
CULTURE

I.S. VOZNESENSKY
M.N. VRAZHNOVA
T.A. MIRONOVA
L.O. TERNOVAYA

MONOGRAPH

Moscow 
INFRA-M
2023

Voznesensky I.S.
B64  
Cross-cultural interaction vs geopolitical culture : monograph / 
I.S. Voznesensky, M.N. Vrazhnova, T.A. Mironova, L.O. Ternovaya. — 
Moscow : INFRA-M, 2023. — 205 p. — (Scientifi c Idea).

ISBN 978-5-16-019008-2 (print)
ISBN 978-5-16-111808-5 (online)
In the monograph, the authors tried to reveal those aspects of cross-cultural 
communications that were most aff ected by the geopolitical factor, manifested in diff erent 
areas and images of geopolitical culture. The peculiar struggle between the meanings 
of cross-cultural communication and geopolitical culture  is more and more clearly 
marked not in the form of contrasts of the global North and the global South, but of the 
civilizational West and the civilizational East. These contradictions originate not in the 
culture created by people, but in the natural environment originally given to them, giving 
rise to a new ecological dimension of all their actions. Business communications and the 
development of cross-cultural management also cannot stand aside from the impact on 
them of the geopolitical culture, which has the widest arsenal of «soft power». The impact 
of the ideas of geopolitical culture in the fi eld of education is especially «soft» manifested 
in the fi eld of education, which is helped by cross-cultural pedagogy and psychology, 
responding to the request for a transition to transdisciplinary models of education. At the 
same time, geopolitical culture feels most free in the space of art, which always fl ourishes 
with a variety of talents and the brightness of their competition. The authors deliberately 
chose English to present their vision of the unfolding of the lines of these confl icts. Firstly, 
it has fi rmly taken the place of the language of intercultural communication. Secondly, 
this approach allows the reader to refer to sources in English to clarify any points of 
interest to him, which is also answered by the extended English-language bibliography. 
Thirdly, it allows using the materials of the monograph in the educational process in 
higher education.
The book is intended for specialists in cross-cultural communications and cross-
cultural management. The publication will also be of interest to a wide range of readers.

УДК 327=111(075.4)
ББК 66.4Англ

R e v i e w e r s:
Goldin G.G., Doctor of of Political Sciences, Professor;
Ryabova E.L., Doctor of Political Sciences, Candidate of Sociological Sciences

ISBN 978-5-16-019008-2 (print)
ISBN 978-5-16-111808-5 (online)

© Voznesensky I.S., Vrazhnova M.N., 
Mironova T.A., Ternovaya L.O., 
2023

The monograph is recommended for publication by the Department of Sociology and Management 
of the Moscow Automobile and Road Construction State Technical University (MADI)

УДК 327=111(075.4)
ББК 66.4Англ
 
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Introduction: Expanding the space of cross-cultural 
communications  
 

Modern researches in the field of intercultural communication in today’s world there 

are many problems of national, regional and global level, which exhibit very deep 

roots in the distant past and with each new stage of development, acquires new 

challenges. We can assume that the resolution of these happen in a very distant 

future.  

These problems are a variety of causes of conflict, and they significantly affect 

world politics, and on the security situation and the common person. It turns out that 

the complexities involved in the process of intercultural universally perceived as 

equally important to address fundamental questions of humanity as the economic, 

social or military-political development. In the world reveals lack of understanding, 

and with that comes the understanding the importance of the further development of 

scientific tools of intercultural communication.  

One of the first examples of the difficulties of establishing cross-cultural 

contacts in the history of international relations was an attempt to decrypt Scythians 

messages to Persians, about which in the fourth book of his History, says an ancient 

Greek historian and geographer from the Greek city of Halicarnassus Herodotus 

(c. 484 – c. 425 BC). According to Herodotus, the Scythians succeeded far enough to 

entice Persian king Darius I (the Great) (521 – 486 BC) troops on its territory. Only 

after that, the kings of the Scythians sent a messenger who brought the gift Darius 

bird, mouse, frog, and five arrows. On the question of the significance of the Persians 

gifts messenger replied that he had been ordered only by giving gifts to retire as soon 

as possible, and the Persians so wise that understand the meaning of the message.  

Darius himself on the grounds that the mouse lives in the ground, eating the 

same grains that man, frog — in the water, the bird most similar to the horse; boom 

also means that the Scythians give its military power, suggested that the Scythians 

give him and themselves, and the earth, and water. But one of his associates, Gobryas 

suggested that these gifts indicate a threat to the Persians, who, if not fly off into the 

sky, turning into birds, not hide in land, becoming mice, or jump into a swamp, 

turning into frogs, struck with arrows Scythians not return back. Gobryas refused 

rights. In addition, the example given by Herodotus and now is an indication of how 

important it is to read the signs correctly, contained in a message from the opponent.  

This also applies to those characters that, at first sight, invisible, as evidenced 

by the other no less instructive historical example. 18 January 1915 convent Japanese 

Ambassador presented a note to the Chinese government, which consisted of 21 

demands. Unusual situation was presenting this document. In violation of established 

custom, he was awarded, bypassing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to the Chinese 

military leader and politician during the decline of the Qing Dynasty and the early 

years of the Republic of China, president Yuan Shikai (1859 – 1916), to which the 

Japanese ambassador was night. The first thing I saw Yuan Shikai, deploying note 

dreadnoughts and machine guns were depicted watermarks on paper, which set out 

the Japanese demands. It was an ultimatum, but such publicly available information 

on which Japan feared. However, the Chinese government reported its contents to 

European countries and the requirements themselves rejected. Then the list was 

cleaned fifth group of requirements relating to the appointment of advisers on 

Japanese political financial and military matters to governments of China, established 

in a number of areas of mixed on of the Japanese-Chinese police and other issues 

affecting the safety of everyone. In addition, already in the form of a reduced set of 

13 demands was adopted by Yuan Shikai.  

The above examples show, if the sign situation arises from the fact that the 

material orientation cannot fulfill its role, this role is taken over the characters. In this 

regard, the sign also acts as a means of political communication. However, should be 

considered and a kind of «movement» of the sign system, which is expressed in the 

original by the human impact on the character of other people and then himself. Sign 

acquires the function of mastering one’s own behavior and can act as an incentive to 

artificially create or control human behavior, keeping a general principle associated 

with the understanding of the ideal expressed in the structure of the nervous system, 

but in some «coded» form.  

These examples highlight the specificity and particular political situation, 

especially the one in which all human security issues are perceived particularly shrill. 

Political history, characterized by specific assessment of the facts, whether internal or 

international conflict and ways to permit the activities of political leaders, etc., cannot 

be adequately sensed by excluding political psychology, specific moods of the 

masses and the elites. All this has a tremendous impact on both the formation of the 

priority areas for action and political rituals and symbols, on the development of 

geopolitical ideas and change civilization and geopolitical identity.  

Global conditions dictate the need for a new understanding of the many issues 

of the world development. However, one does not ignore the approaches that in the 

past helped to understand the peculiarities of the political process through the 

language of political symbols, penetration into the corners of everyday stories. No 

coincidence that in recent years the interest in such approaches has increased 

significantly1.  

With such knowledge taken quite successful attempts to understand the 

increasingly complex picture of the world, to identify elements of the geopolitical 

code to help detect common basis of traditions and customs of different countries and 

peoples, and through these elements to build a modern model of their interaction.  

In the context of globalization, it is important to seek the ways of intercultural 

interaction, which can become bridges of understanding people, nations, states, when 

no arguments cannot force them to unify their positions on key geopolitical issues. 

Such bridges needed and in order to restore lost during industrial and military race of 

man’s connection with nature. Tiberio Graziani (Italy), President of the International 

Institute for Global Analysis  — Vision & Global Trends, the editor in chief of 

                                         

1 International Encyclopedia of Communication / Ed. by E. Barnouw, G. Gerbner, W. Schramm, T.L. Worth, 
L. Gross. Univ. of Pensilvania. Vol. 1 – 4. New York: Oxford Oxford Univ. Press, 1989; Гибсон К. Символы, знаки, 
эмблемы, мифы в материальной и духовной культуре  / Пер. А. Озерова. М.: Эксмо, 2007; Клюканов И.Э. 
Коммуникативный универсум. М.: РОССПЭН, 2010; Похлебкин В.В. Словарь международной символики и 
эмблематики. 2-е изд., перераб. и доп. М.: Международные отношения, 1994.   

geopolitical journal Eurasia believes that the balance between man and the 

environment, between local and global authorities, between the living needs of people 

and natural resources can only be done within interconnected geopolitical units 

created by continental basis, or on the great spaces1.  

The modern world should be considered a product of communication between 

representatives of different cultures. In addition, in terms of sharply increased due to 

globalization of cross-border movements of intercultural communication space 

spread throughout the planet. This communication is not only globally, it is 

continuous and consists of numerous as personal contacts between people of 

mediated forms of communication such as the Internet, through letters, through the 

means of mass communication2.  

The concept of «intercultural communication» was introduced into scientific 

circulation American anthropologist and cross-cultural researcher Edward Twitchell 

Hall, when he in the middle of the 1950s developed for the U.S. Department of State 

(DOS), or State Department, program adaptation of American diplomats and 

businesspersons in other countries. In 1954 he published a book of Hall and George 

L. Trager Culture as Communication, in which for the first time and been consumed, 

the term «intercultural communication», which, according to the authors, reflect the 

essence of a particular area of human relationship3. Moreover, five years later an 

                                         

1  Грациани Т. Геополитические координаты Евросоюза // Вестник аналитики. 2008. № 2 (32). С. 79 – 
89.  
2 Багана Ж., Дзенс Н.И., Мельникова Ю.Н. Национальные особенности межкультурной коммуникации 
(теория и практика): учебное пособие. Изд.3. М.: Флинта, 2023; Боголюбова Н.М., Николаева Ю.В. 
Межкультурная коммуникация: Учебник в 2 частях. М.: Юрайт, Ч.1. 2023; Ч.2. 2022; Головлева Е.Л. Основы 
межкультурной коммуникации.  Ростов н/Д.: Феникс, 2008;  Грушевская Т.Г., Попков В.Д., Садохин А.П. 
Основы межкультурной коммуникации: Учеб. для студентов вузов, обучающихся по специальности 
«Межкультурная коммуникация» / Под ред. А.П. Садохина.  М.: ЮНИТИ, 2002; Рябова Е.Л., Терновая Л.О. 
Межкультурное взаимодействие в современном мире. М.: Международный издательский центр «Этносоциум», 
2011; Садохин А.П. Межкультурная коммуникация: Учебное пособие. М.: Альфа-М; ИНФРА-М, 2004; Фрик 
Т.Б. Основы теории межкультурный коммуникации: учебное пособие. Томск: Томский политехнический 
университет, 2013; Шютц А. Смысловая структура повседневного мира: Очерки по феноменологической 
социологии / Пер. с англ. А.Я. Алхасова, Н.Я. Мазлумяновой; Фонд «Общественное мнение». М.: Ин-т Фонда 
«Общественное мнение», 2003; Aalto N., Reuter E. (Hrsg.): Aspects of Intercultural Dialogue. Theory · Research · 
Applications. Köln: Saxa, 2007; Martin J.N., Nakayama Th. Intercultural communication in contexts.  5th ed. New 
York: McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2009; Schutz A. Symbol, Reality and Society / Natanson M. (eds). Collected 
Papers. Vol. I. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1962. Pp.  287 – 356. 
3 Trager G., Hall E. Culture as Communication: A Model and Analysis. New York, Greenwich. CT: Fawcett, 
1954.  

American anthropologist and cross-cultural researcher Edward Twitchell Hall in the 

famous work The Silent Language tied the basic ideas of intercultural communication 

with the general cultural context1.  

 

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Understanding the deep interdependence of culture and communication 

allowed Hall to conclude the need to highlight issues of intercultural communication 

as an independent discipline. In addition, already in 1960s in the West several 

universities in the United States began to design this discipline. Within ten years 

filled with the necessary theoretical components, allowing for new levels of object 

that previously had pronounced practically. In Europe, the development of this 

discipline reflected the process of European integration was formed together with the 

common market of goods, services and labor, the foundations of European 

citizenship. Nevertheless, as European countries are increasingly open to people from 

other regions who are carriers of other cultural traditions. In the late 1970s – early 

1980s at universities in Western Europe appeared departments of intercultural 

communication.  

Even a decade after the Cold War the need to understand the features of 

intercultural communication and in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union was 

                                         

1 Hall E.T. The Silent Language. New York: Doubleday, 1959. 

dramatically increased. This need was dictated by understanding the importance of 

knowledge of the rules of intercultural interaction to reduce conflict potential 

accumulated in the society during the transition to post-socialism, which is not 

always carried out by «velvet variant» and often involves various practices of «shock 

therapy».  

At the time of Millennium the need of researches on intercultural 

communication expand the list of disciplines of  International relations marking this 

perspective, has become increasingly determined by global processes, in particular, 

intensive migration has many manifestations. However, at the same time, the 

development of mass media exacerbated a number of problems of social psychology 

and interpersonal communication that occurs between people of the same cultural 

environment, belonging to different age, social and professional groups. Such 

conditions pushed the boundaries of intercultural communication as a combination of 

various forms of communication and relationships between individuals and groups 

belonging to different cultures, including here also numerous aspects of intra-cultural 

communication.  

All this required a change in the underlying understanding of the culture itself 

not only as a system formed conscious and unconscious rules, norms, values and 

structures, but also as a particular lifestyle, system of behavior, norms, values, etc. of 

any social group. This dynamic understanding of culture gives an opportunity to 

identify common and individual differences in culture generations, organizations, and 

proud of the countryside, to show that culture can quickly be transformed under the 

influence of both internal socio-economic or political situation, and under the 

influence of global and regional processes.  

Now the study and teaching of intercultural communication rightly dominates 

interdisciplinary approach. It consists of the knowledge gained by linguists, 

anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists, anthropologists. Interdisciplinary face 

intercultural communication manifests itself in the domestic educational and 

scientific literature on these issues1.  

Therefore, in its tutorial Doctor of Cultural Studies, Candidate of Philosophical 

Sciences, Professor, Editor-in-Chief of the journal Culture and Civilization 

Alexander Sadokhin2 presents the entire range of issues and problems arising in the 

process of intercultural communication. The author considers culture as a 

communicative system, including the interaction of different cultures. Other domestic 

authors — Natalya Bogolyubova and Yulia Nikolaeva in the book Intercultural 

communication and international cultural exchange isolated specifics of modern 

cultural exchange and intercultural communication, their basic shape and direction3. 

This research highlights intercultural communication in the fields of music, theater 

and cinema, sports, scientific and educational ties, festivals and exhibitions. 

Importantly, the authors address the problem of images and stereotypes, in particular, 

the problem of images of modern states.  

Another important aspect of intercultural communication concerns the 

corporate culture. To this is devoted analysis of Tamara Persikova in her research 

Intercultural Communication and Corporate Culture, where the issues of 

intercultural communication in a multicultural business environment present a variety 

of aspects of corporate culture: its history, levels and factors affecting the formation, 

formation and maintenance stage, typology4. Particular attention is paid to the 

analysis of the process of entering into a new corporate culture, which is important 

for professionals, beginners to work in foreign companies and firms.  

The close relationship of intercultural communication with linguistics is 

revealed in the first fundamental textbook on a new specialty Linguistics and 

                                         

1 Hua Zhu.  Research Methods in Intercultural Communication. A Practical Guide. New York: John Wiley & 
Sons, Inc.,  2015; Jones R.H., Scollon R.,  Scollon S.W. Intercultural Communication. A Discourse Approach. New 
York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2011.  
2 Садохин А.П. Указ. соч. 
3 Боголюбова Н.М., Николаева Ю.В. Межкультурная коммуникация и международный культурный 
обмен: учебное пособие. СПб.: СПбКО, 2009. 
4 Персикова Т.Н. Межкультурная коммуникация и корпоративная культура: Учебное пособие для 
студентов вузов, обучающихся по специальности «Лингвистика и межкультурная коммуникация».  М.: Логос, 
2002.  

Intercultural Communication Soviet and Russian linguist, Doctor of Philology, 

Honored Professor of Moscow State University Svetlana Ter-Minasova Language 

and Intercultural Communication. Awakening interest and respect for other cultures 

and traditions of behavior becomes imperative for the survival of humanity in a 

«borderless world», when there is a problem acutely understanding people of 

different cultures, the task of promoting tolerance towards them1.  

It seems appropriate to mention the collection of materials of different 

readings, trained by the researchers of intercultural communication in the context of 

globalization, which raises issues related to intercultural relations, literature, 

languages etc.2  

All these publications are used in high school educational process in areas and 

specialties in the field of foreign languages, sociology, psychology and management. 

They are of great interest to managers and specialists of enterprises and organizations 

with multinational business environment for the participants of the negotiation 

processes, peacekeeping forces in areas of ethnic conflict, for specialists in the field 

of international relations. The need for training of such specialists every year felt 

more acutely, and research and development must surely outstrip the development of 

the educational process.  

 

 

 

 

                                         

1 Тер-Минасова С.Г. Язык и межкультурная коммуникация: Учебное пособие для студентов, 
аспирантов и соискателей по специальности «Лингвистика и межкультурная коммуникация».  М.: Слово/Slovo, 
2000.   
2 Межкультурная коммуникация: современная теория и практика (Материалы VII Конвента РАМИ 
сентябрь 2012 г.): Научное издание / Под ред. А.В. Шестопала, М.В. Силантьевой; отв. ред. А. В. Мальгин. М.: 
Аспект Пресс, 2013.