Kyryk V. Geopolitical expansion as statebuilding macroprocess

The dissertation is the first in domestic scientific thought study of geopolitical expansion, its subjects, resources and forms of realization in the context of statebuilding megaprocess. Geopolitical expansion is showed to be realized in different types of space: physical, economic, information, ideological, each of which demands application of adequate forms and different means (resources). National security provision is proved to be the aim and priority of geopolitical expansion. The following system of national security of Ukraine provision is proposed to be formed: it should be based not on subjective desires, interests and values, but on objective logic of social development that combines recognition of inner sense of security of a person, society and state as well as geopolitical comprehension of national security provision.