The research seeks to justify the concept of national resilience as the resilience of the civilizational subject of a country in modern geopolitical conditions. The report also aims to define the country’s strategy for ensuring the balance of development on the one hand and successful counteraction to external and internal threats, including hybrid ones on the other. The question of the interaction of national resilience and national security of a state is investigated, and the problem of institutional maintenance of the strategy of national resilience is set.
The national report, prepared by the staff of the Section of Social Sciences and Humanities of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. The report seeks to justify the concept of national resilience as resilience of the civilizational subject of a country in modern geopolitical conditions. The report also aims to define country’s strategy for ensuring the balance of development on the one hand and successful counteraction to external and internal threats, including hybrid ones on the other. The question of interaction of national resilience and national security of a state is investigated, the problem of institutional maintenance of strategy of national resilience is set.
The article examines the essence of the concepts ‘independence’ and ‘agency’ of Ukraine, their specific manifestations, substantial differences, and the major characteristics of the civilisational agency of countries, which are archetypical and situational. Each of them consists of pairs of opposites (authoritarianism – humanism, weakness – power, passionarity – conformity). The authors emphasise that it is extremely important to find out the difference between the concepts of independence and agency of the country. The authors note that the productive civilizational agency of Ukraine in the modern world should be humanistic and innovative. This determines its strength and quality, which are necessary for the decent life and prosperity of the people of our country and the achievement of its true independence. The issue of the genuine independence of the country, its people, and authorities is analysed and it is assumed that this is the transition of independence to freedom. The authors identify three ‘waves’ of civilizational agency in the history of Ukraine, which precede the stage that began in 1991, and its current state. In particular, these are the periods of Rus, the Cossack state, and the Ukrainian revolution (1917– 1921). It is argued that the agency of modern Ukraine, expressed in a referendum by the will of the Ukrainian people, began to develop in 1991 on the basis of an independent state and had a long prehistory and deep roots that trace their origins back to the times of the culture of Rus. It is noted that the agency of the country is the meaning and purpose of its security and not vice versa. Put otherwise, security is only a means of achieving agency. In addition, the national security and agency of the country are dialectically linked. However, in various social systems, the emphasis is placed on the main values: ensuring national security or updating the agency of the country. It is proven that in the modern world, the development of the country’s agency through innovative development means the acquisition of strategic security. It is also highlighted in the article that the urgent task facing Ukraine today is to comprehend and ensure the innovation and humanistic nature of its social and political practices as the basis of its agency. The authors conclude that in the modern geopolitical realities, the agency of Ukraine – both as an objective economic, political, and cultural process and as an image in the eyes of partners – has a rather contradictory effect on its security. Keywords: Ukraine, independence, civilizational agency, national security, innovation, humanism.
На розгляд Президії НАН України представлено Національну доповідь «Україна як цивілізаційний суб’єкт історії та сучасності», яку було підготовлено фахівцями установ Секції суспільних і гуманітарних наук НАН України. Автори Національної доповіді зробили спробу відповісти на питання, яким чином Україна може утвердитися як повноцінний суб’єкт світової цивілізаційної системи в нинішніх умовах гібридного світового порядку та геополітичної турбулентності. Комплексно вивчено історичні передумови, специфіку, чинники та проблеми, пов’язані з набуттям Україною цивілізаційної суб’єктності в сучасному світі. Докладно про-аналізовано уявлення громадян України про ступінь самостійності держави в різних сферах внутрішньо- та зовнішньополітичної активності, а також ставлення міжнародних партнерів до суб’єктності України. Визначено перспективи цивілізаційної суб’єктності України у ХХІ ст. та окреслено шляхи її посилення в політичній, економічній, міжнародно-правовій і духовно-культурній сферах.
The article conceptualises the real value of Ukraine in the context of the contemporary Euro-Atlantic civilisational community. In this regard, it raises the question of the global criteria of victory of our country in the war with the neo-totalitarian ‘northern neighbour’. Those criteria simultaneously serve as the global purport and meaning of Ukraine’s victory for the world and drive the decisions of the Western countries on rendering economic and military aid. The underlying criterion of Ukraine’s victory is the preservation and development of civilisational agency of our country and the triumph of the new humanism over neo-totalitarianism, which today threatens not only our country but also the world as a whole. Facing neo-totalitarianism, the new humanism is not confined to compassion for the Other, but rather extends to consolidation and co-creativity with the Other. Furthermore, the article highlights the Kyiv-Rus identity of Ukrainians, which consolidates the Ukrainian political nation, facilitating national resilience for the sake of the country’s agency. The Kyiv-Rus identity in its essence is juxtaposed against the muscovite-russian imperial identity at the level of values and further aligns Ukraine with the European identity. The author stresses that in addition to value-centred consolidation, Ukraine must also actively fulfil its interests in cooperation with the ‘Collective West’, given that shared interests among countries amid emergencies often prevail over values. Keywords: Euro-Atlantic space, humanism, neo-totalitarianism, meta-anthropology, meta-anthropological potentialism, personalism, worldview tolerance, consolidation, identity, mentality, Kyiv-Rus identity, Kyiv-Rus mentality, civilisational agency of Ukraine.
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