International Retrospective of the Anti-Corruption Standards Development in the Economic Security System of Ukraine

Abstract

The thesis that corruption is a negative phenomenon that massively permeates all spheres of both the public and public sectors does not require proof, not just in two, but in a significant number of states around the world. The modern existence of the phenomenon under consideration is historically conditioned and quite natural. This problem is relevant for any country, even for one where, it would seem, there are long-standing democratic traditions and a certain structure of public power has been formed. The fact is that sooner or later both external and internal conditions change, and this requires an understanding of the effectiveness of the adopted model and, possibly, its revision. Moreover, an analysis of the effectiveness and degree of optimality of constitutional constructions is necessary for post-totalitarian countries with still weak traditions of public political life. This paper investigates the modern vectors to the formation of the effective anti-corruption policy as the component of a legitimacy of the economic security system in Ukraine. The article presents practical recommendations for improving effective anti-corruption policy in Ukraine and ways for using of state regulatory imperatives to combat systemic corruption in the national economy. The paper examines in detail the historical evolution of views on the basis of the origin and perception of corruption in public relations; explored and substantiated the key foundations of systemic corruption and its basic varieties; studied the anti-corruption strategy of Ukraine in 2020-2024. Authors have considered and substantiated the implementation of the experience of foreign countries in the area against corruption in national legislation, the barometer of global corruption in the coordinates of the economic development of Ukraine. Now there are a number of fundatory international acts-specialized and secondary, which relate to certain aspects of the international legal regulation of the fight against corruption in the world. The initiators of their adoption (union recognition of the problem and the same, cooperative opposition to it by a group of states of the world) are global and regional international organizations. Accordingly, within the framework of this work, international standards for combating corruption are analyzed in the retrospective aspect. The authors in this scientific work investigated the state guarantees of anti-corruption security as a determining condition for real progress on the European integration path of Ukraine.