The features of Ukraine’s transition to sustainable development. Outlined a legislative regulatory framework in Ukraine this matter, namely: Local - industry solutions that put local goals and objectives on the scale of one or more joint areas in the context of sustainable development of Ukraine ; - Infrastructure - level solutions that create the necessary conditions for balanced and opportunities for achieving the goals and objectives of sustainable development and system solutions for targeted programs that determine the direction of achieving (...) the goals and objectives of sustainable development at the global or regional level. Emphasized the special importance in the context of Ukraine’s transition to a sustainable development course on decentralization of public administration and local authorities to provide more rights and powers given responsibility for their implementation. It was determined that in modern Ukraine local government at the regional level as an institution of public power is very tied to local administrations, and its activity is largely confined to the approval of the draft decisions prepared by pre- administration. Indicated that before the modern system of governance of regional development for its effective functioning and conflict resolution at the «center» - «region» is a series of tasks related to the implementation of the comprehensive reform. Analyzed bottlenecks functioning of local government and local government and the ways to overcome these contradictions. (shrink)

Швидкий технологічний прогрес спричинив зрушення інтересів науковців з усього світу в бік когнітивної науки та інформатики, що, безперечно, вплинуло на формування нового типу мислення. Логіка, як наука про специфічний логічний тип людського мислення, не може залишитися осторонь. У статі проаналізовано методологічні засади когнітивістики та дуальність самої науки логіки, які відкривають перспективи їх співпраці. Для цього автор робить історико-методологічний розгляд обох дисциплін. Доводиться, що, з одного боку, формальна логіка багато вкладає в розвиток штучних формалізованих мов, які активно застосовуються для програмування Штучного (...) Інтелекту, а з іншого – неформальна логіка, як і когнітивістика, займається вивченням природньої мови, що дає їй можливість наблизитися до реального людського мислення. Показано, в який спосіб логіка, застосувавши для вивчення реального процесу мислення людей методологічну базу когнітивістики, може розширити межі своїх досліджень з теоретичного поля до практично-експериментального. (shrink)

This paper examines the representation of political issues in the fild of civil protection as vital for society and the state, i.e. their politicization and securitization, conducted by Ukrainian political actors last years in the conditions of security crisis. Last two years Ukraine has being faced unprecedented security challenges to protect its territorial integrity and sovereignty that determine tasks for security and defense sector. Although military component is of high importance but diplomatic, economic and information components play role to eliminate (...) security threats. In order to mobilize resources and justify emergency measures those to be taken in crisis situation, political leadership of the State should represent certain security threat as most critical or even existential threat. This process was in a focus of Copenhagen Peace Research Institute in 1980s and 1990s, while B.Buzan and O.Weaver introduced term “securitization” to describe this political process. Although there are many threats for national security, a few could be securitized and others could be politicized, i.e. discussed in the public debates and realized as signifiant but not existential. Securitization belongs to constructivist branch of security studies that may be characterized as applied researches. Despite rising interest of securitization studies in Ukraine, there is lack of applied researches to describe particular components of national security. We focused on securitization and politicization of civil protection issues in contemporary security environment in Ukraine. The issues of ensuring public health and safety as well as protection of environment against man-made and natural disasters were repeatedly included into agenda of discussions at the highest Ukrainian political level since independence. However, it can be argued that these threats were neither expressed by the Ukrainian political leadership nor perceived by the public as existential threat, and therefore there was no process of securitization. The main aim of securitization is not to demonize a particular threat, but to mobilize countering this threat. Moreover, the implementation of securitization may provide opportunities for the state to apply emergency measures in a particular fild of governance. These emergency measures include the revision and redistribution of responsibilities under emergency situations. However, this revision is hard to be conducted, and despite necessity of more pragmatic requirements for business and society politicians both government and opposition trend to make populist decisions that was shown in the case of Chernobyl accident consequences overcoming. Civil protection issues in Ukraine were politicized by President, Government, political parties, certain politicians, NGOs and activists. It was done mainly in a form of offiial documents, but also by the process of emergency situation declaration, and political leadership speeches. Since January 2015 Ukrainian government established the State Commission on technogenic and ecological safety and emergencies that was actively used to resolve several urgent problems regarding civil protection. We also should stress that Ukrainian President on his speech on the UN General Assembly underlined that military action against Ukraine increased environmental and epidemiological threats in the Eastern Ukraine, and he suggested that the UN should make efforts to address environmental issues in the areas of military conflcts. Thus Ukrainian President politicized civil protection issues on the international level. (shrink)

The second part of the interview with Dr.Sci.Proleiev, Doctor of Philosophy, devoted to the understanding of the phenomenon of "philosophy in the USSR" (first part: Proleyev, S., Zborovska, X., Mironenko, R., Kostenko, O., & Shulha, M. (2018). Philosophy as a School of Life at the Time of Totalitarianism. Part I. Thinking in the Space of Soviet Myths.