DIPLOMACY AS A COMPONENT OF NATIONAL FOREIGN POLICY IN THE CONTEXT OF DOMESTIC POLITICAL STUDIES

Abstract

In the article, the main directions of domestic researches devoted to international relations, foreign policy and diplomacy are analyzed. Particularly, great attention is paid to political science achievements of the latest works. The ways of the future research development in this area are defined.

In a period of social and political transformation inUkraine, which has been lasted the last few months, the issues, which had not been actual before, became important for the society. We think that scientists did not pay enough attention to Ukrainian establishment. First of all, it deals with our country policy in international relationship, and a strategy and a tactics ofUkrainefacilitation of its equal partnership in the world.

As we know, such policy needs the solution of many problems. The lack of attention to them from the Ukrainian leadership might have led to those consequences which now can threat the existence of our country. These issues that have been requiring thoughtful action in promoting the values of national culture, the impact of other countries on the political culture, explanation the geopolitical interests and priorities of the national foreign policy and creating a positive image of the country, etc. All of this aimed to get feedback due to foreign communications where the rational representation of our country and its interests and goals plays the main role.

Nowadays the measures realizing in the information and representative level are considered strategically correct in cases of the solution existing and possible future tactical problems. Therefore, the studying of the multifaceted issues, related to foreign policy, international relations, diplomatic activities, requires special attention of modern scholars.  In general, the topic of international relations and diplomatic policy is not innovative and well-researched in foreign science.

The term "diplomacy" is often used as a synonym of the national foreign policy or a complex of actions dealt with the solutions of the issues by negotiations, or a symbol of the foreign part of the MFA, etc. In general, the diplomacy is an implementation of national foreign policy by its official representatives in international relations. Accordingly, diplomacy is often seen in complex of such concepts as foreign policy and international relationship. The prevalence of these tendencies in the Ukrainian scientific tradition can be shown by the names of the dissertation researches which have been defended our country recently.

To make easier understanding, we grouped all dissertations that may be interesting within the study of political diplomacy in three categories. They are the first historical science, the second – legal, the third – political – according to the code of its specialty in defense.

The last group of studies is the most interesting because it is represented by the dissertations of the "political science" specialty. For intra-block division we have chosen the following principle: first unit – studies mainly devoted to the general aspects of diplomatic and foreign relations, the second and the third one connected with the practical dimension of their implementation, reflected in the analysis of the events that required diplomatic intervention.

Remarkably, the most of the mentioned above works devoted to new forms of diplomacy. The experience of its implementation to influence the political culture of other countries can be useful forUkraine.

We proposed the next sub-block for an analysis Ukrainian scientific researches in the field of diplomacy and international relations. It presents studies, covering various aspects of operations on the possibilities of a diplomatic solution of the conflicts. A third one analyzes the relationships between countries and institutions.

An important direction of research near by theoretical aspects related to the mentioned problems should be practical points of the diplomacy role in dealing with various issues concerning the most high-profile events, particularly, those relating to the future of our country. Thus, we think that one of the ways prospective studies is a historical and political analysis of the diplomacy role in complex and ambiguousUkraine's integration into the European Union.