An unbiased analysis of the history of the coexistence of church institutions and politics in any state shows that the chronicle of such coexistence appears, in large part, as a history of attempts to use, with greater or lesser success, on the one hand, by church political structures, and on the other, by the church of political structures, or politicians. The history of these interconnected relationships goes back to the times when both institutions in the process of their formation and (...) development began to represent a certain socially influential force, a real and potential resource which could be used to solve operational and strategic political or religious-church problems in any which field of social life. (shrink)

У статті розглянуто особливості суспільної модернізації в регіонах сучасної України. Визначені проблеми, що породжують регіональні протиріччя і поглиблюють соціальну депривацію. Доводиться, що інноваційний розвиток сучасного українського суспільства можливий за умови органічного поєднання національної ідеї як духовно-ідеологічного феномену розвитку державності із вирішенням економічних і соціально-політичних завдань.

It is proposed to analyze fuzzy concepts and relations between them in the frame of triplet concept modeling. Fuzzy concepts are introduced by means of the so-called fuzzification of dichotomous concepts. The cognitive and psychological aspects of concept possession are separated and studied.

The article analyzes modern trends of political participation in Ukraine. The study defines and analyzes nhe neoteric general and specific features of political participation. The author distinguishes and scrutinizes main forms of political street-art participation in ukrainian society: political performans, flashprotestmob, political graffiti.

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)

Статья посвящена исследованию event-менеджмента в управлении развитием туризма. Раскрыт потенциал event-менеджмента в сфере туризма. Изучен событийный туризм и его перспективы развития на украинском рынке туристических услуг.

The Soviet ideology treated natural science as one of its cornerstones and provided the state support for philosophical studies of science. Their main aims were to prove its intellectual superiority and to demonstrate its scientific character. Do these studies have some positive results and resources for surviving in post-Soviet times? The chapter gives the overview of present situation in Ukrainian analytical studies of science and indicates some perspectives of their developments. Some of these are connected with a careful structure-nominative analysis (...) of real scientific knowledge systems and relations between them. -/- Ideology and philosophical studies of science Complexity of scientific knowledge systems Components and structures of knowledge systems -/- . (shrink)

The study attempts to reveal the prospects of the idea of a caliphate in the Muslim world. Having used analysis and phenomenology, the research found the following results. Firstly, the idea of a caliphate will play a significant role in the Islamic world in the future. It will happen in any variant of the future of the self-proclaimed caliphate “Islamic State”. Because the idea of a caliphate is inherent to Islam and it did not become an archaism in the framework (...) of this religion. Secondly, in the modern world, the implementation of the idea of a caliphate is linked closely to longstanding bloody wars. The causes of this phenomenon are related to the religious beliefs of the Sunni Salafists, who are the main promoters of the caliphate in the 21st century idea. Thirdly, in case Islamic State caliphate, created in 2014, does not change its destructive and expansionist policies fundamentally, it will be eliminated. An idea of caliphate will survive, though. (shrink)