МЕТОДОЛОГІЯ ПОЛІТОЛОГІЧНОЇ КОНЦЕПЦІЇ ЦИВІЛЬНО-ВІЙСЬКОВИХ ВІДНОСИН В УКРАЇНІ

Abstract

Problem of civil-military relations (CMR) in Ukraine in itself appears universal, but is indeed specific in its nature as it is in any other country. Taking into account own historical experience, the country saw the necessity of improvement of civil-military relations in accordance with the world standards. The article presents civil- military relations as a matter of the proper political science conception, emphasizing that they are the special type of socio-political activity, which main task is the defense of a country. In the conditions of democratic state building, the main mechanism of realization of the proper relations is democratic civil control. Originality, CMR in Ukraine is formed by common mankind moral values, necessity of collegiality of Ukraine, explicit certain orienteers of national spiritual freedom, of independence of people, by orthodox mentality. With the specialty of the Ukrainian life, victories and sufferings of people, by a fight for independence, by relations with other people, the basic problems of CMR, questions of military history, are mutually connected. The phenomenon of CMR in Ukraine comes forward as the phenomenon of culture of society, expression of public consciousness, mass world view, is determined as an integral national-culture, political-social historical process with the stages of independent, original development: 1.Archaic period which is characterized by natural, elemental-folk creation of communal and individual forms of bellicosity with its connection with defense of community, with magic and earth in the days of Kievan Rus. 2. Period of forming and grandeur of princely military institution with its support by a church in the days of Kievan Rus, when friendly, sympathizing, and benevolent attitude toward an army purchased the type of public moral-ideological imperative. 3. Social self-defense and self-preservation in the days of Lithuanian-Polish occupation, when social, ethnic, national and orthodox self-determination of Ukrainians showed up. 4. Period of Cossacks bellicosity and self-rescue of Ukrainian nation, whose ideological basis was the orthodox religion. 5. Period of imperial guardianship of civil-military relations on Levobereankness and Slobozhanschina in ХVІІ – ХVІІІ centuries. 6. Period of dominations of general CMR of the Russian empire (an end of ХVІІІ is beginning of XX age). 7. Period of struggle for liberation in the first half of XX century on western territories and Pravoberezh'e of Ukraine, which was based on the idea of national folk self-defense and non-acceptance of intervention from other powers in the life of people. 8. Period of dominations of the soviet forms of CMR in Soviet Ukraine. 9. Period of formation and development in the new independent, democratic Ukraine. Exactly these approaches allow to elaborate the conceptual model of civil-military relations in Ukraine, to see their traditional character, heredity, specific features of their formation, related to the historical factors and specialty of the Ukrainian people, to specify the democratic civil control as a mechanism of realization of such relations in the conditions of democratic state building in Ukraine.