Paliy O. Ukraine's National Security in the Context of Euro-Atlantic Integration

The thesis is dedicated to the problem of connection between national security and Euro-Atlantic integration in contemporary Ukraine. It proves the correlation between effective national security policy and Ukraine's active integration to the Euro-Atlantic structures.The thesis gives the basis for analysis of impact of Euro-Atlantic integration on Ukraine's national security: 1) as a separate process, independent of Ukraine; 2) as a process in which Ukraine participates. The thesis analyses essential changes in European security after joining of new CEE members to NATO, changes in politics and economy of new members. The mutual relations between Ukraine and USA in the sphere of security, development of forms and mechanisms of this co-operation as a variant of Euro-Atlantic integration could play the role in realization of Ukrainian national interests in the sphere of state security in the case of emergency in CEE region.