Monographs

The analytical report examines the harmonization problem of group needs with the national course towards the country completion of democratic transit. The structure of group interests, their object and historical contradiction, political and legal mechanisms of their coordination to achieve the national consensus are examined.

The research is devoted to political identities of urban community in Odessa. On the basis of theoretical developments and empirical basis, the research deals with the political identities of urban community in Odessa through the parameters of space and time, geographic and demographic factors, organisation and functioning of local economy, foreign policy orientations, religious environment structure, forms / methods of memory policy, the resource potential of the society, language and cultural policy, the specifics of communication networks and due to the analysis of citizen participation in local self-governing authorities, activities of political parties, public organizations in election campaigns to central …

In this book the essence and significance of the civilizational outbreak in Europe and Eurasia on the cusp of XX-XXI centuries is broken down, as well as its impact on the Ukraine, Russia and surrounding countries in being researched. Also given is the general-political prognosis on civilizational changes of the social development of the world and particular countries.

The materials of the second volume deal with the thematic scope of political science studies, which were conducted by social scientists in Ukraine during 1991-2016, the development of theoretical and methodological foundations of the national political science, its conceptional achievement, its contribution to the resolution of social and political problems, which appeared in the process of Ukraine’s development as a sovereign state.

This is the first edition in Ukraine which analyses the formation and development process of political science in Ukraine over a period of 1991-2016. The materials of the first volume introduce the discipline history, development features of its subject field, the problems associated with the specifics of categorical apparatus, as well as theoretical and methodological approaches to the political research in western countries. The focus is on the process of knowledge accumulation about the policy and political on the domestic territories in the period from Kyiv Rus formation as a state and until 1991 is given. The process of initialization …

The monograph examines the theoretical and practical aspects of the transformation of the political institutions in modern Ukraine. The methodological and theoretical principals of the transformation of political institutions in Ukraine are revealed, the interaction study of political institutions and civic society at the present stage of democratic development is carried out, the impact on the transformation of the political institutions of electoral processes, mass media and other factors of socio-political changes is analysed.

With the involvement of a wide range of sources, the variety of factors which influenced the political identities formation and development of the inhabitants in Donetsk, are examined. The particular attention is paid to the analysis of political identity specificity that was carried out by both central and local authorities in Donetsk and more widely – in the region.

The analytical report, prepared by the results of scientific and research work “The political aspects of the crisis in Donbass: status and directions diagnostics of the settlement” which was performed at I.F. Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in 2015.

Using a large number of domestic and foreign sources, the researchers revealed the main stages of formation of the government and opposition in Ukraine, determined the EU course of our states. Along with the analysis of political processes in Ukraine the authors of the monograph analyse the relationship between power and opposition in Russia, Belarus, Moldova other CIS countries and the Baltic States, East and West Europe. The challenges facing the contemporary Ukrainian authorities are analysed in the epilogue. This book is intended for researchers, social scientists, students and all who are interested in political problems of modern Ukraine.

The monograph is dedicated to the conceptualizing the concept and revealing the phenomenon of the national and state self-determination of Ukraine as integral, dynamic socio-political phenomenon, that changes and reveals under the influence of external and internal factors of state and political, socio-economic, national and cultural content. The domestic and foreign factors which influence the process of national and state self-determination, since the epoch of Perestroika in the USSR up to the present time, are analysed. The current trends in the social and political development of contemporary Ukraine are defined.

The research deals with the study of one of the most difficult phenomena – political identities in modern Ukraine. The analysis is carried out on the bases of political identities study (individual and collective) in urban community in such Ukrainian sites as Donetsk, Odessa, Poltava, Chernivtsi and Chernihiv. Taking into account the historical background, socio-cultural and economic context, the factors that have an impact on the transformation of Ukrainian citizens’ political identities are distinguished and examined. Involving a large amount of empirical data, the political identities subjects, the peculiarities of each of the urban community are analyzed, the valuable basis …

The analytical report was prepared by the results of the research work “Donbass in the information security system of the state: regional distinctions, external challenges, tools of struggle against anti-Ukrainian propaganda”, which was performed at the I.F. Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in 2015. As a result of a project completion, the regional distinctions of Donbass, external challenges, tools of struggle against anti-Ukrainian propaganda in the information security system of the state were examined.

The analytical report is based on the result of scientific and research work “The contradictions of identity in Ukraine and the ways of their regulation in the context of civil consolidation policy of the Ukrainian nation / Analytical report” that had been carried out at the I.F. Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in 2015. It carried out a generalized analysis of the contradictions of identities in contemporary Ukraine (motives, displays, risks), public and legal support to prevent conflicts and mechanism functioning; socio-economic realities as a factor in strengthening of the …

The essence of civilizational understanding of the culture, the place of Ukrainian cultural landscape in the Ukrainian regional civilization, European and world civilizational and cultural space are found out. The historiosophical interpretation of interrelation of culture and civilization, the source’s, historiographical and methodological basis of civilizational understanding of Ukrainian culture, its origins and the most important stages of its development are presented. The particular attention is paid to the sacredness of Old Ukrainian culture, the importance of Christianity establishment, the role of the written language, book printing, spiritual values of the Renaissance and Enlightenment, their impact on the spiritual world …

The book is based on an analysis of various facts from the history of international relations, in which the political factor of their evolution is the ethnicity, the theoretical and conceptual approach to the scientific approach is suggested, which consists of applying the general theory system regulations to the social phenomena.

The issue of ethno-political polarity and socio-cultural demarcation has become topical in Ukraine, as Ukrainian national consciousness is still weak, and for certain segment of society national independence of Ukraine is not of high priority. The monograph provides a complex analysis of identification practices, ethnic borders idiosyncrasy, dialectics of regional and ethnic identity, ethno-political polarity. The author’s vision of such points as the mythologized and politicized issue of “two Ukraine”, “involvement crisis” and values and ideological polarization of Ukraine is revealed. Special attention is paid to the examination of ethno-political markers in the system of inter-ethnic interaction, including the historical …

The collection includes the research studies, op-ed articles on the past and present of Ukraine, at different time published in the various scientific editions and newspapers. A series of essays are published for the first time. The focus of authors is the history of Ukraine late XIX – early XX centuries through the ideas prism of the Ukrainian intellectual environment representatives, the process of the Ukrainian ethno genesis as well as the peculiarities of the political process and the formation of political science in Ukraine at the turn of XX – XXI centuries.

The book gives a historical approach to religion in the Donbas region from its early times to the present. It suggests thorough analysis of how religion interacted with politic on the one side and ethnic identifications of its inhabitants on the other in different periods of the history of Donbas. Historical background of regional specificity helps to better understanding the system of values and senses in contemporary Donbas – economically and socially the most depressive region in Ukraine – with the lowest level of religious self-identifications and irrelevant attitude to ethnic markers of the local population, instrumental use of religion …

The analytical report was prepared by the result of scientific and research work “Political mechanisms of civil identity in the modern Ukrainian society” that had been fulfilled at the I.F. Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in 2014. The main political mechanisms of civil identity under present-day conditions are outlined; the activities of authoritative institution, political parties and non-government organisations which aimed at the civil identity formation are examined; the place and role of state policy as well as foreign policy influences in the process of civil identity transformation are examined; …