Kravchenko O. Formation Evolution and Prospects of a Common EU Foreign Policy: Conceptual and Regulative Aspects

Positive aspects and contradictions of the formation of a common EU foreign and security policy are studied and represented in the thesis on the basic of the interdependence theory. Commensurability of the conceptual, managerial and regulavite provision of the foreign and security policy are considered in the aggregate for the first time in the Ukrainian political thought. It is proved that the European political thought and political circles have influenced the European regional integration and actual mechanisms of transformation Europe into a peaceful and stable continent under the political and financial auspices of the USA. Key difference between the geographical and political understanding of Europe in the post-war epoch are systematized; the artificial and destructive nature of the existing division of countries on the continent by former historical and ideological criteria is proved; an evolutionary regularity and staged of formation of the common foreign and security policy beginning with the first integration projects is dioscovered. The cause-and-effect relation between the existing concepts of development of the common EU foreign and security policy and the contradictions inherent in its institutional, managerial and regulavite provision is found out and a conceptual measurement as well as forms and mechanisms of regulation of the common foreign and security policy are marked out. It is emphasized that a further expansion of the European Union faces a number of problems related to the contradictions between an institutionally incomplete policy of the EU and the retained priority powers of the national ministries for foreign affairs of member countries.