This article explores the theoretical and methodological aspects of investigating intercivilizational conflicts. It examines the interactions between local civilizations as the foundation of civilizational conflictology, the specifics of early concepts of local civilizations, and the non-classical interdisciplinarization of the object and subject field of civilizational theory already in that period. It examines the prerequisites for the multiple classifications of civilizations as actors in conflict, the multiple classifications of types of intercivilizational conflicts, and the terminology of intercivilizational conflict. Intercivilizational conflicts are analyzed from the perspective of multilevel civilizational identities. From an understanding of history as a multitude of local civilizations with unique specificities in the early stages of civilizational studies through an understanding of the multiplicity of terms and varieties, modern civilizational research integrates with the achievements of conflictology within the framework of an interdisciplinary scientific field – civilizational conflictology. Modernization and globalization, the tension between modernity and traditionalism, and the role of the West as a party to intercivilizational conflicts are considered key determinants transforming and shaping the contemporary world order. The article examines extensive and ramified theoretical and methodological aspects, including terminological ones, of understanding the determinants, varieties, subject and basis, structure, parties and actors, development and stages of intercivilizational conflicts, and multilevel and interlevel conflicting interactions between civilizational identities.
civilization, intercivilizational conflict, civilizational identity, clash of civilizations, confrontation of civilizations, conflict of civilizations, technogenic civilizations, cosmogenic civilizations, modernization, globalization, westernization, West