Political Studies. 2021. №1

CONTENTS

Oleg Rafalskiy To our readers

THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL SCIENCE

Mykola Genyk Methodological problems of interdisciplinary peace research

POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS AND PROCESSES

Mykola Gorbatiuk The decentralization reform in Ukraine: problems of implementation in social crisis

Valyntyna Romanova, Andreas Umland The decentralisation reform in Ukraine: First accomplishments and future challenges

Oleksandr Mayboroda “Regime-order” and “regime-structure” in political system

Vyacheslav Yaremchuk Regional political elite: formation principles and mechanisms (Ivano-Frankivsk region as an example)

POLITICAL CULTURE AND IDEOLOGY

Serhiy Danylenko Transformation of democracy in the information age: the role of new media and civic communication

Anatolii Podolskyi Places of Memory for the victims of the Holocaust in Ukraine: the totalitarian legacy and historical and political challenges of today

ETHNOPOLITICS AND ETHNOSTATE STUDIES

Viktor Yelenskyi Eastern Orthodoxy in the processes of the post-communist political transformations

Mykola Riabchuk “Piedmont”, “Banderstadt”, and the “Cradle of nationalism”. Ethnopolitical study of a city

FUNDAMENTALS OF NATIONAL SECURITY

Volodymyr Smolianiuk National security of independent Ukraine: comprehension of the essence

EDITORIAL POLICY Academic journal “Political Studies”