The concept of national interests and foreign politics of contamporary Ukraine

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problem of peculiarities of conceptual principles of foreign politics of Ukraine through the prism of the concept of national interests. National interests are expressed by general necessities of the state which swim out from its socio-political nature, and also its place and role in the system of international relations. On the example of Ukraine the intercommunication of domestic and external politics and the design of the system of defence are probed. On the modern stage Ukrainian national interests are concentrated on the necessity of democratic transformation of public relations. The state is called to overcome a crisis, to provide support of socio-cultural and spiritual revival of Ukrainian society, and to provide effective functioning of political system in conditions of stability and social consent. It remains a question: is it possible the achievement of this aim in unfavourable international terms? Principles of Ukrainian foreign policy on this time are mostly certain, but there is the field for legislative work. Bright confirmation until today is the absence of the law on national interests, ore, for ex., very frequent mention about the dependence of forming of Ukrainian foreign politics on other international actors. The current legislation of Ukraine envisages basic foreign-policy directions, normative base partly touches national interests, but there is no permanent strategy of the Euro- Atlantic integration.