The presented study, positioned within the framework of contemporary political science discourse, is dedicated to a comprehensive comparative analysis of armed violence—including armed aggression, armed conflicts, wars, terrorism, revolutions, and genocide—as a factor in the transformation of political space. The dissertation elucidates optimal approaches to studying political space as a substantive foundation of political activity and a domain of interaction among political actors in their pursuit and exercise of power.
The research substantiates the methodological necessity of defining the category of armed violence as a persistent global issue that influences the functioning of states and the transformation of political space. Particular emphasis is placed on the multiplicity of forms of armed violence, which are differentiated based on their scope of action, degree of organization, number of participants, source of initiative, scale, intensity, socio-political characteristics of the perpetrators, methods of action/influence on the target, programmatic objectives, outcomes, orientation and depth of socio-political consequences, as well as the number of victims and their interrelations.
An attempt has been made to provide a detailed classification of the forms of armed violence, with special attention given to armed conflicts and wars, as well as their impact on the transformation of political space at the micro, meso, and macro levels.
The relevance of this dissertation research is primarily determined by the ongoing military-political processes taking place both globally and within our country, which exhibit a transformational nature and increasingly reach catastrophic proportions. Specifically, this refers to the full-scale Russo-Ukrainian war, the armed conflict in Syria, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the geopolitical rivalry among the United States, Russia, and China, as well as the broader confrontation between democracy and authoritarianism.
Keywords: armed violence, war, armed conflict, political space, ideology, global crisis, political singularity, spatialization, genocide, terrorism, democracy, geopolitics, European Union, NATO, post-Soviet space, state, hegemony, globalization, state-building, integration, sanctions, coercive measures.
