Unitarism and a new paradigm of the Ukraine state information policy

Abstract

The article purpose is to highlight the issue of improving the theoretical and legal foundations of state information policy in mo -dern conditions, to formulate some conceptual foundations of its essence, content as a complex legal institution. And also to deepen thedoctrinal grounds of modern unitarism as a constitutional and legal institution.Some aspects of the influence of the state-territorial organization form on the implementation of state information policy are considered.The need to develop a fundamentally new strategy for the entry of Ukrainian society into the cross-border space, integration intointernational telecommunications networks, development of international standards of information exchange and information protectionis emphasized.The expediency of developing a new paradigm of state information policy, its legal regulation is substantiated.Attention is paid to the relations between state information policy and state information function.Deficiencies in the formation and implementation of the national state information policy are analyzed separately. These are: theactual lack of information relations in many areas, including countering information wars against Ukraine.It is said about the lack of a systematic and comprehensive approach to regulatory and legal support of information policy measuresand other shortcomings of the modern state policy strategy.Based on the analysis of the current legislation provisions , special literature, attention is paid to the problems of the conceptualand categorical apparatus of the researched subject, the need for its improvement.In particular, it is an analysis of the content of such key categories as “state information policy”, “information sphere”, “nationalinformation space”. Methodological approaches to the essential characteristics of these concepts differ both in domestic special literatureand in foreign. This issue has extremely practical significance.