Kotygorenko V. Ethnic Tensions and Conflicts in Contemporary Ukraine: A Politological Concept.

Object of research are realias of ethnonational relations in Ukraine in past and present as well as in their dynamics and interrelationships. The methods are dialectic, case-studies, axiomatic, hypotethic-deductive, observation, analytical and synthetic, comparative-historical, inductive, deductive, modelling, cognitive and quantative as well as theoretical generalizations of social studies in particular the categories like civilization and formation. Aim, innovative value, theoretical and practical results of the research are realized in complex theoretical, methodological and praxeological comprehension of ethnic contradictions and conflicts in Ukraine in totality of their peculiarities, nature, causes, factors, dynamics and results, working out recommendations as to ways and mechanisms to resolve contradictions of ethnonational relations and ways to prevent their contradictions from developing into open conflicts. Approbation: Monograph, 53 publications. Field of application: ethnopoliticalscholarship and practice.