UKRAINIAN ARCHETYPE AS A SOURCE OF EUROPEAN SECURITY

Abstract

The publication proceeds from the fact that the destruction of the world security system has become both a sign and a consequence of the recent crisis in the West. Of the total set of reasons, the attention of the authors is attracted by the loss of landmarks and meanings, the departure from the basic values, softening of norms and taboos. The consequence was a dangerous reduction of public trust, which, in fact, is based on democracy.

As you know, in these circumstances, the hopes of many Western intellectuals appealed to Ukraine: “Today, the Ukrainian Maidan represents Europe at its best ... Let us help Ukrainians build a new Ukraine — and then they will certainly help us build a new Europe and a more just world”.

So Maidan combined two historical processes: the improvement of Ukrainian society and traditional democracies. FUNDAMENTAL European values were sought by both Ukrainians and European intellectuals, but the process of renewal was slowed down: the results of five years do not suit either Ukrainians or Europeans. In Ukraine, the first vice president of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, director of the National Institute for Strategic Studies Volodymyr Horbulin, wrote in 2016, the main brake became the feudal-oligarchic system, the radical restructuring of which is the first precondition for victory over the aggressor and the restoration of territorial integrity and state sovereignty.

Similar conclusion was previously arrived by citizens who in 2012 founded an interdisciplinary group of independent researchers of the Joint Project. The group has put forward the concept of de-oligarchy and sustainable development, which proceeds from the fact that the country’s renewal is possible only with mass support of citizens. They should receive an attractive and true prospect of development of the country and the National Roadmap. The current reformers do not have a similar perspective, they did not receive mass support, which, in particular, showed Ukrainian politicians losing their “new face” in the presidential elections on March 31, 2019.

During 2012–17, the Joint Project modeled the Positive scenario, which provides and justifies this perspective. The System Technology Research Agency provided a review of the Document, which stated, in particular, that the Positive scenario could be recommended as a draft unification platform program.

The publication attracts attention to those Scenario fragments that reflect similar features of Ukrainian and Western European processes, and thus open up possible directions for cooperation between Ukrainian and foreign researchers.