Monographs

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; …

The analytical report analyses the institutional changes of the main components of the political system, which are the institutional subsystem and a kind of political matrix, that determines the functioning of the political system itself, such as: political parties, central government and the vertical of power in terms of an performance their formal and informal functions. On the basis of an assessment of their condition, the conclusions and recommendations aimed at the improvement of the political system of Ukraine are formulated.

The analytical report, which was prepared by the results of target complex scientific research program of the NAN in Ukraine “Humanitarian technologies as a factor of social transformation in Ukraine”, deals with the analysis of theoretical and practical aspects of interethnic and interconfessional relations, challenges an risks in the sphere of interethnic and interconfessional interaction in Ukraine. A group of authors proposes the models and possible way of harmonization relations in the social and humanitarian sphere, in particular, through the understanding of the changes that are taking place, social consolidation, implementation of specific actions to respond to the challenges of …

The proposed scientific work deals with the range of problems in development the Jewish national community in the modern Ukrainian society and the Ukrainian state. The status and level of the Jewish community in the context of the Ukrainian society integration, historical and political aspect of this scientific problem are studied.

In the political history of Ukraine in the XX century, the special place belongs to Petro Shelest. After a hard way of life, in 1963, he became the First Secretary of Central Committee of Communist party in Ukraine. He supported N. Khrushchev and his political line, but he was among those, who helped L. Brezhnev to come to power. He opposed strongly to «the Prague Spring» in 1968 and at the same time, he blockaded the total suffocation of the dissent in Ukraine. He accepted Stalin’s authority and at the same time, he demanded that the Moscow leadership adhered officially …

The monograph deals with a modern political and ideological process in the Ukrainian society. On the basis of a wide array of domestic and foreign sources, the historical path of objective factors in formation, development and consolidation of the independent Ukrainian state’s political system is discovered. The book identifies prerequisites to the formation of a democratic power, the relationships between the political regime and sovereignty of the people, strengthening of consolidation ideology and formation of Ukrainian political nation. Political and ideological process of modern Ukraine is compared with the similar modernization transformations in the CIS countries, the Baltic States and …

The monograph discloses the historical origins and current state of the most pressing and complex issues in the relationship between state and society in the territory of modern Ukraine, the recommendations for their solution are offered, the prospects of achieving the partnership model based on the consensual principals of decision-making between the state and society are analyzed

The monograph reveals the fundamental nature of the category “historical culture” which is fundamental in the Western historical cultural studies but is still unusual for domestic term practice, as a factor in the formation of the “image of the past” in the interaction of professional and historical knowledge and collective memory of society. Historical culture is represented as the newest concept of rationality in historical knowledge, as a system combining the principals of articulation, interpretation and representation of the past, as a successful find in the system of categorical operationalization of scientific concepts. The mechanisms of historical ideas circulation, which …

The analytical report was prepared on the basis of scientific and research work “National and integrative potential of scientific and innovation policy in Ukraine: social and humanitarian aspects” which was performed at I.F. Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in 2013. It deals with the problems of innovative development of Ukraine and the impact of innovative technology on the prospects for social and human development of the society in order to ensure its competitiveness in the global geostrategic space.

The collection of scientific works contains the researches of the participants of the International scientific and practical conference “The parliamentary election 2012 in Ukraine”, which analyses the vital questions of the parliamentary electoral campaign 2012, in particular, deals with the political and legal basis of the electoral process in Ukraine, the ideological features of elections, markers of political parties identifications are considered, voting technologies, which are used at the national level as well as at the regional one, are examined.

The analytical report was prepared by results of scientific and research work “The political field of interaction between the state, society and citizen in modern Ukraine: institutional mechanisms, motives, tendencies”, which was performed at I.F. Kuras Institute of political and ethnic researches of NAN in Ukraine in 2013. A range of problems that exists in Ukraine between state institutions and civil society is examined. The general state of interaction between participants, motives and consequences of their activities, the reasons and factors of appearing barriers in achieving the consensus model of their relationships are characterized. The ways and means in achieving …

Analytical report is a result of research “Conceptual foundations of State Policy for the development of civil society and the consolidation of the individual”, which was carried out in I.F. Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in 2013. It summarized the most authoritative and proposed new theoretical and methodological approaches to solving practical problem of cooperation between authorities and civil society in Ukraine.

The book contains Larysa Nagorna colleagues and students’ articles, one of the founders of modern ethno-political science.

The monograph analyses the features of the political process in Ukraine in the year before the election that influenced on the course of electoral competition. The special attention is given to the specifics of the campaign, the identification strategies of the five parties that won the race – the PARTY OF REGIONS, VO “Bat’kivshchyna”, KPU, political party “UDAR (Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reforms) of Vitaliy Klychko”, VO “Svoboda”. In addition – those parties-outsiders, which in spite of rebranding, exerting every effort for receiving deputy mandates (such as the Party of Nataliia Korolevska – the “Ukraine – Forward!”) or their significant …

The monograph represents the results of a complex study of prospects of liberal democracy development in the 21st century taking into account a whole range of factors (challenges) of both intersystem and external character. Liberal democracy is considered as a dominating in the modern world form of political state system existing in the majority of leading and developing countries (Ukraine in particular). The historical periods of establishment and development of the liberal democracy doctrine are analysed in detail. The main factors of social development of the present and the future that may cause anti-liberal and anti-democratic transformations of the existing …