PUBLIC GOVERNANCE AND NATIONAL CONSOLIDATION
On April 21, 2026, the Educational and Scientific Institute of Public Administration and Civil Service of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv hosted the annual International Scientific and Practical Conference “Globalization Challenges: Governance of the Future”.
The event brought together leading scientists, experts, and practitioners to discuss strategies for adapting state institutions to the conditions of global instability. The work of the third section, dedicated to the mechanisms of modern governance, attracted particular attention from the participants.
Tetiana Bevz, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, and Chief Research Fellow at the Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, delivered a report entitled “Public Governance in Times of Turbulence: Policy Implementation Mechanisms and Factors of National Consolidation”.
In her speech, Professor Tetiana Bevz analyzed the phenomenon of “polycrisis” – a state where security, economic, and social shocks overlap, creating a cascading destructive effect. According to the speaker, traditional bureaucracy proves ineffective in such conditions, and the institutional resilience of the state must rely on two basic vectors: administrative adaptability and national consolidation. To achieve this, the state must abandon rigid hierarchies in favor of flexible models: Agile governance with short decision-making cycles, decentralization of communities as autonomous “buffers of resilience,” and total digitalization to ensure the continuity of government through cloud technologies. However, these managerial mechanisms are effective only in the presence of strong social capital, the foundation of which is institutional trust that minimizes the costs of state coercion, transparent strategic communications to counter psychological operations (PSYOPs), and network governance that unites the efforts of the authorities and civil society into a powerful partnership synergy.
The discussion of the report sparked a lively debate among the conference participants, confirming the relevance of an interdisciplinary approach to solving the problems of modern state-building.