PRESENTATION OF THE RESULTS OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH “ADAPTIVE CHANGES IN THE POLITICAL FIELD OF UKRAINE IN THE CONDITIONS OF WAR”

On June 27, 2024, at the Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine held a round table presentation of the results of the scientific study “Adaptive changes in the political field of Ukraine in the conditions of war”.

In his opening speech, Director of the Institute, Vice-President of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Oleg Rafalskiy, emphasized the relevance of the investigated problem and the results of the study, which contains a detailed analysis of the changes taking place in the political field of Ukraine under the influence of the war unleashed by Russia. Emphasis is placed on the importance of the political analysis carried out by scientists of the activities of the key institutions of the political system: in the mode of its functioning, in the institutions of parliamentarism, the presidency, executive and judicial branches of power. An important research direction is the analysis of modern social and political processes, the search. The mentioned and other issues are part of the political science subjects, which are the subject of the conducted analysis, the results of which are presented on the pages of the collective monograph.

Oleg Rafalskiy is speaking

In continuation of the presentation, Head of the Department of Political Institutions and Processes, Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor, Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Galyna Zelenko, noted that the author team focused on the key aspects of political changes in Ukraine caused by the conditions of martial law – on functional changes in the country’s political system, on new formats of relations between government and society, on innovations in the implementation of the Euro-Atlantic course of the Ukrainian state. The subject area of ​​the analysis of changes in the country is the functioning of political and power institutions, the nature of political governance in accordance with the activation of social processes in the spiritual, cultural, ethnopolitical spheres, and the search for ways to integrate Ukraine into the global democratic space.

During the work of the round table

During the round table, the project executors gave short presentations of their sections:

– “Transformation of the political regime in Ukraine during full-scale Russian armed aggression” (Galyna Zelenko, Head of the department, Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor, corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine);

– “The problem of the institutional capacity of the parliament during the war” (Vitaliy Pereveziy, scientific secretary of the Institute, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor);

– “Structural and functional changes of executive power” (Svitlana Sytnyk, senior researcher, Candidate of Political Sciences, Associate Professor);

– “Political aspects of changes in the judicial branch of the Ukrainian government” (Svitlana Brekharya, senior researcher, Candidate of Political Sciences);

– “Moral and psychological unity of Ukrainians in repelling Russian armed aggression” (Yuriy Shaihorodskyi, Deputy Director of the Institute, Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor);

– “Management mechanisms for preventing political radicalism and strengthening political consensus” (Nataliya Kononenko, leading researcher, Candidate of Political Sciences);

– “Ethnopolitics during the war” (Viktor Kotygorenko, Head of the department, Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor);

– “War and crystallization of the Euro-Atlantic vector of Ukraine” (Oleksandr Mayboroda, Deputy Director of the Institute, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine);

– “Mechanisms of public diplomacy in the formation of international support for Ukraine” (Leonid Kiyanitsa, senior researcher, Candidate of Political Sciences);

– “Securitization of the socio-political space of Ukraine in the face of armed aggression” (Maxym Kyjak, senior researcher, Candidate of Philosophical Sciences).

Scientists of our Institute took part in the work of the round table and spoke: Chief Researcher, Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor Vasyl Kozma, Leading Researcher, Candidate of Political Sciences Rostyslav Balaban, Leading Researcher, Candidate of Historical Sciences Anatoliy Podolskiy, Leading Researcher, Senior Researcher employee, Candidate of Political Sciences Iryna Ovchar, and others. More than 30 guests joined the discussion of the research topic online. Among them are employees of scientific institutions, teachers of higher education institutions, representatives of the media and public organizations.