Chornyi V. Ukraine's military establishment: specificities of creation and prospects of development (approach based on the philosophy of Ukrainian studies)

The thesis deals with systemic analysis of the state military establishment in terms of Ukrainian studies as a social phenomenon, a core factor of the Ukrainian statehood. It examines the stages and specificities of building of Ukraine's military establishment from the viewpoint of systemic and Ukrainian studies approach. The thesis demonstrates that the military establishment in its essential historic forms promoted the processes of building the national identity, actualised the mighty potential of state-building. The main conceptual point of the work is seen in the idea of direct dependence of defence-building on the general transformation processes in Ukrainian society. In this context, it substantiates the main lines of development of a new social model of the military establishment fit for the tasks of providing Ukraine's military security on the basis of historic, national and mental specificities of the Ukrainian community.