Monographs
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 …
In the proposed research, the comprehensive analysis’ attempt of the first Ukrainian parties’ activity of Eastern (Naddniprianskoi) and Western (Galicia and Bukovina) Ukraine, which were functioning in the context of Ukrainian multiparty system is given. The particular attention is focused on the specifics of the Ukrainian political parties, their interaction and accomplishments, achieved in the political life of the Russian and Austro-Hungarian Empire. The results of comparative analysis in the process of multiparty system’s formation and functioning in Naddniprianskii and Eastern Ukraine are presented.
The monograph examines the dynamics of ethnopolitical conflict in Transdniestria and prospects of its regulation for state-to-state relations between Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova. The author studies the historical and ethnopolitical essence of the conflict, defines the pre-conditions of the cooperation between Ukraine and Moldova and other state-to-state relations and analysed the approaches of all the parties concerned with the settlement of the Transdniestrian conflict.
This monograph deals with the problems of studying the history of geopolitical thought, the geopolitical realities of the modern Ukrainian state. It is covered the issue of Ukraine’s national interests in the post bipolar world and in the context of geopolitical ideas discourse at the beginning of the XXI century.
The book is intended to spotlight historical aspects of Birobidzhan Project in Russian Far East. Translations from Yiddish, Hebrew and English of the works by Kh. Sloves, M.Kadishevich, Y. Babitsky, D. Lipshits, E.Rosental-Shayderman, G. Vinokur, R. Braynin, B. Ryvkin. Kh. Zhytlovsky etc. allow the readers to see in new light various aspects of the project labeled “Red Zion”, “Ghetto”, “Stalin Project”.
The book examines the system of political values of the population in Ukraine, their structure, the regional specificity. The methodological and theoretical basis of their analysis and adjustments in the value-split Ukrainian society are disclosed. The attempts at political forecasting some of the transformation of value orientations in the course of European integration are accomplished.
Historical memory is conventional and fragile construct that builds up in the collision of political and corporate interests, ideological directives. The lack of the united, conceptual, symbolic scope in Ukraine is now one of the most critical of those which support the state of the permanent identification crisis.
In the work, the historical and political analysis of the Ukrainian regional civilization way is carried out. The significant differences between Ukrainian and Russian regional civilizations, their ethnic components, national ideas and the future are shown.
The present textbook combines the key ways of development of PR in political sphere, beginning from its grounds, principles and ethical norms of political PR as well as the practice of PR in political sphere. There are researched such important questions as the instruments of political PR, media-planning, political advertisement, internet in political communication etc.
In the work of two famous social scientists, the historical and political, socio-philosophical analysis of our epoch is carried out. The political leaders’ role of the country at separate stages in the development of independent Ukraine is shown; the evaluation of activity of such conflicting political figures as L.Kravchuk, L.Kuchma, V.Jushchenko and V.Yanukovych is given. The critical research of political, economic and spiritual processes in Ukraine throughout last 25 years is carried out.
In the work of two famous social scientists, the historical and political, socio-philosophical analysis of our epoch is carried out. The political leaders’ role of the country at separate stages in the development of independent Ukraine is shown; the evaluation of activity of such conflicting political figures as L.Kravchuk, L.Kuchma, V.Jushchenko and V.Yanukovych is given. The critical research of political, economic and spiritual processes in Ukraine throughout last 25 years is carried out.
In the analytical report which was carried out on the basis of research results in Ukraine’s adaptation process to the transition of the world system from the unipolar to multipolar system, the theoretical and practical aspects of the problem, which is associated with the formulation of the new structure of the world system, were analysed. The general features of this structure are defined. It is proved that its formation is not the result of purposeful vital activity, but also is the struggle between different blocs and individual countries. This often leads to the deployment of the cut-throat competitive struggle and …
The monograph deals with the specifics of the Russian Empire policy, concerning national minorities of the Right-Bank Ukraine in the late XVIII – early XX century. The internal and external factors of the tsarist policy in the field of ethnicity are analysed, the activity of the state administration institutions and administrative control in the field of ethno-political region is examined, the basic principles of socio-economic, educational, church and religious policy of the Russian Empire and its impact on the ethno-demographic and ethno- social processes, the position of the Poles, Russians, Jews, Germans and Czechs in the region are traced
The study analyzes the process of formation and development of the Donbass settlement population structure, specifying the key factors that influenced its changes.
The work, which is brought to your attention, is an analytical reports’ collection of I.F. Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies of the NAS of Ukraine on a number of issues of social and political development in Ukraine.
In the monograph, the evolution of the term “revolution” in social and political thought: from astronomical conception to the political, as well as the “phenomenon” of the revolution as a kind of multiplicity that occurs at the intersection of different discourses (political, social, religious and scientific). Revolution is examined as a natural form of society’s development, which is caused by the same reasons, as evolution. An attempt was made to estimate the revolution and the idea of revolution in terms of the present with specific and historical conditions, in which the revolutionary events occurred and the idea and mode of …
In the scientific and analytical report, based on the prevailing understanding of category solidarity in the political science, the state of social solidarity in the Ukraine in her moral and psychological manifestations, such as human values and trust, is analysed, the role of the most influential actors in the social solidarity of the country is evaluated, the perspectives for realizing the idea of unified society in the Ukrainian state are examined.
Based on a wide amount of modern historical research sources; the analysis of real political processes, one of the main topics of political science – the nature, concepts and classification of political leadership at the national and regional aspects is presented in the tutorial. The theoretical and methodological problems of political leadership, the idea of leadership in the world of political thought, the formation of political leadership in modern Ukraine after independence are found out. The process of becoming political leaders in the CIS and Baltic, Central and Eastern Europe countries is given; the general regularities and special features in …
