Petkova O. Political Imperatives of Ukraine's Positioning in International Information Space

Dissertation is dedicated to the examination of conceptual and applied problems of global information resource and of international information space forming, to the research of holistic information systems that are classified as information fields or information spaces, to the peculiarities and novations of Ukraine's foreign-policy imaging as of a modern political actor, to the expert estimation of Ukraine's imaging in global information space, which is very important for national politology and state's political activities within global information environment. The work systematizes the basic definitions of information, educes the genesis of information impact on international political relations, and gives the analysis of information technologies forming, evolution and implementation in social life in general and in international politics in particular. The current information system is examined on three levels. Global information web acts as the closed system all over the global world. For other systems it may be considered both as an independent autonomous system, and as a supersystem that includes into its structure other elements or subsystems. International information system and information systems of distinct states, compared to the global system, are open systems which are partly comprised into global system, and partly function beyond its cognizance. In particular for such subject of international relations, as Ukraine which is experiencing the process of state sovereignty development, the regulation of various information flows both within the country, and in international political space is especially sensitive.One of the new information space functions, the image-function, had been researched, and its special nature for Ukraine had been shown considering geopolitical position and historical evolution of the state.