At the beginning of the XXI century, the modern East is experiencing a period of significant changes. After the modernization was completed, it was divided into two zones: more developed and modern countries, and less developed countries in which the modernization process did not lead to a change in the quality of the social system due to a complex of demographic, economic, political, and socio-cultural factors. The purpose of the article is to provide a theoretical understanding of the question of various strategies for implementing reforms for a new modernization. Key words: East, modernization, economy, reforms. The changing parameters of the socio-economic and political development of the modern world, the previously unprecedented quality of technologies, various manifestations of globalization-all this and much more allows us to talk about the ongoing process of systemic transformation. This process of crisis of the development model could not fail to cover directly or indirectly the countries of the East, further complicating the development of a modern or semi-modern society there. To understand the general laws of the crisis phenomenon and possible ways out of it, we should not limit ourselves to describing the cases of crisis that have occurred in the history of large social systems, but rather identify within these processes the general parameters of the system and recurring elements and phenomena, with more or less significant differences in the number of cases of crisis.- page 153with the highest degree of fidelity, they characterize its state: crisis (decline) - transition period (transit) - exit from the crisis. What is fundamentally important is a holistic approach, not just an integrated approach that takes into account direct and indirect relationships and interdependencies within the system and the system in the external environment. At the same time, within the framework of the national state, society is considered as a complex, internally unified ... Read more