THE MOST LIKELY VECTOR OF UKRAINE’S DEVELOPMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF INTEGRATION POLICY

Abstract

The article covers the issue of the concept of “globalization”, its advantages and disadvantages for the Ukrainian society. The author has realized the purpose of the research, which is to analyze the impact of globalization on the development and formation of the integration policy in Ukraine.

The study used general scientific and special methods: scientific generalization and systematization — to determine the characteristics of globalization; comparative analysis — to compare the development of the countries that are members of the European Union with other countries whose government is seeking integration with Europe; systematic analysis — to identify the positive and negative aspects of the impact of globalization on the socio-economic and political development of some countries in the world; logical synthesis — to explain the results of the research.

It is determined that the positive impact of globalization is a significant and steady increase in world industrial production and trade, a decrease in inflation, the widespread introduction of new principles and methods of the economic activity. It is justified that Ukraine has the potential to become not just a European, but a global state.

It has been researched that globalization as a whole and world economic relations, in particular, is an objective process that expresses the totality of conditions of development of the modern world community and, first of all, scientific and technical and economic progress. This is an inevitable stage of the ascension of humanity to new horizons, which ultimately has positive beginnings, but at the same time is not devoid of serious and large-scale contradictions, and therefore does not exclude negative influences.

It is analyzed that the main negatives of globalization is the dominance of the “wealthier” country over the less developed in the economic and even cultural spheres. The downsides also include the commercialization of the cultural values, the subordination of the world to the interests of powerful transnational corporations, and more. Globalization in its present form is subordinated to the interests of the world capital (transnational corporations) operating using the militarypolitical power of the leading Western powers. However, these states themselves are leading the world globalization process in the pursuit of their own geopolitical interests.