Orest Krasiwski’s scientific contributions

Abstrakt The Russian factor poses a real threat to the national security of Ukraine and Poland. The Russian expansion includes the dismemberment of the Ukrainian and Polish territories and formation of weak, non-viable and quasi-public entities there which would be dependent on Moscow. One of the important features of Russian strategy is to undermine national unity of Ukrainian and Polish societies within the countries, neutralize strategic partnership between our countries and to provoke a new Ukrainian-Polish conflict. Russia’s neo-imperialist policy is substantiated by A. Dugin's neo-Eurasian geopolitical doctrine. The analysis of the doctrine makes it possible to forecast the Russian policy towards Ukraine, Poland, European Union and the USA and to work out an effective counterstrategy. Deepening the Ukrainian-Polish equal partnership and joint efforts to neutralize and dismantle Russian imperial social system should become the response to common threat to the national security of Ukraine and Poland. Without taking such drastic measures the national security of Ukraine, Poland and other countries will always be at constant threat.

The phenomenon of political culture has been considered as the basis for stability and dynamic development of thestate. Correlation between functioning of democratic institutions and transformation of political culture in the country has been studied. Forms have been investigated and stages of social democratization at the present time have been analyzed. The role of political and cultural factors in the evolutionary processes of social democratization has been substantiated.