Institute of international relations

The European Integration Index for Eastern Partnership Countries will track the progress of Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries—Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine—on an annual basis. It provides a nuanced cross-country and cross-sector picture that is comparative.
The Index is a monitoring tool that is also intended to assist EU institutions in applying the ‘more for more’/‘less for less’ principle, announced by the EU in May 2011. Although the EU and independent civil society initiatives provide numerous regular assessments of the progress of EaP countries in European integration, few of these assessments have attempted to place the countries in a comparative perspective. This is what the Index primarily attempts to do.

Developments in Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries over the past year have confirmed the trends we observed in the 2011 Index. Moldova has kept moving forward while Georgia is lagging somewhat behind on many indicators of this Index. Ukraine has moved even further away from its one-time status as the ENP poster child as its democracy and business climate continue to deteriorate. The situation in Armenia has stabilized: although the May 2012 parliamentary elections were flawed, they were a clear improvement over the 2008 elections. Azerbaijan is showing increased lack of respect for democratic principles, while Belarus’s 2010 elections finally brought out the sanctions.

Weeks before the Eastern Partnership Summit in Vilnius and five years since the Eastern Partnership (EaP) was launched, the European integration trajectories of the six EaP countries are rather uneven. Countries have responded differently to the same initial offer by the European Union (EU), demonstrating different levels of commitment and performance. Nevertheless, the Index 2013 shows that all six countries, with some exceptions, are on a positive track towards European integration. Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan intensified their links with the EU, while Moldova and Belarus registered no change and only Ukraine had less intensive relations with the EU than last year. All six countries show progress in the reform process with the exception of Azerbaijan, which remains at the same level as in the previous year. However, all countries register both ups and downs in different areas. Four countries — Moldova, Georgia, Armenia and Belarus — improved the way they manage their relations with the EU; Ukraine has not changed its approach, while Azerbaijan slightly weakened its management mechanism.

Based on the comparative analysis models of constructive and destructive external informational impacts
on social transformations in modern Ukraine are characterized. The unsubstantiated conspiracy versions
of «subversive activity of the covert western centers» actively distributed in the Russian-speaking
segment of Internet in regard to the collapse of the USSR and social transformations in the post-Soviet
political space are criticized. The methods of countering external destructive and subversive informational
influences are analyzed.
Key words: external information influences, information war, state political consolidation.

Immature Ukrainian "big politics" tend to abuse the artificial media drives. This suggests a clear conclusion: Ukrainian politicians should not betray a common sense. The political "entertainment" would be understandable for the another conditions. But in the case in Ukraine the slogan "Not in word but in deed" is actuell now as for politics as for channels of mass communications.

The beginning of the XXI century marked the transition from modernism to postmodernism, from information and communication technologies of the fifth wave to the converged nano-, bio-, info-, cognitive-cybertech sixth wave (NBIC), which offer prospects for the empowerment of human biological body and design of "artificial intelligence". The logical continuation of these trends is transhumanizmu and posthumanizmu phenomena as elitist social movements of Posmodern era that cause certain social resistance (neoluddyzm).
Analysis of recent research and publications on selected issues indicating that the philosophical and methodological analysis of the phenomenon of transhumanizm is mostly biased, remote from the real social, technical, technological and business and marketing practices, mainly devoted to the standpoint of criticism Gnostic religious utopia of transfer the individual personality of elite representative into the transnaturalne body equivalent to the divine.
The purpose of this article is to analyze transhumanist movement and its policy documents reflecting the views of adherents of this utopian version of positive eugenics with their guidance for a new «immortal breed» of people. Вut analysis was devoted also to the realistic marketing proposals of transhumanists aimed to the improving the quality life and overcome the natural limitations of the human body.
Materials and methods. The dialectical and synergetic methodological approaches inherent in modern philosophy and cultural studies of science and technology were used. The historic, historical and comparative methods were applied also.
Transhumanism described as a complex cultural hybrid entity that combines the features of the philosophy and religion, science and technology, economy and business, offering «human transfer» to the benefit of man from many modern breakthrough technologies. This causes inevitably a threat of «escape from the freedom» due to technological intervention in all kinds of human activities and directly invasion into the deepest human nature. Instead of excuses transhumanists promise the «morphological freedom» with prospects of overcome such natural limitations of human existence as illness, aging and death.
Conclusions. A balanced analysis of all «for» and «against» related to applications of promises which offer the followers of transhumanist utopias (dystopias) concerning the practical application of the latest achievements of NBIC-technology as well as the statements and declarations from opposite side points to the existence of phenomena technoutopy and neoluddyzm as overvalued affirmation and negation. Neoluddyzm is ideological trend opposite to the transhumanizm due to fear of the probable loss of human identity, self-organizing suicide of the human species and its replacement (substitution) of «immortal» cybernetic substitutes.
Keywords: cybernetics, synergetics, artificial intelligence, teсhnoutopy, transhumanism, posthumanism, immortalism, singularity, luddhism, neoluddysm.

The Language - is not only a means of communication, but also a means of separation. It is not just a means of expression and self-assertion, but also a means of manipulation. The Language is a means of liberation, but also a means of enslavement. The language is inseparable from politics and power relations/ And only in this context it can be understood adequately. This means that language policy can not be separated from the language of politics.

The globalistics followers understand the planetary social dynamics as the monolinear trends, based on the concept of pre-modeliing the desired and appropriate, necessary and sufficient/ Another characteristic of the ideology and practice of globalization propose representative of antiglobalization with their principles of chaotic dynamics and diversity.

In the article examines in the projections on the realities of formation of modern Ukrainian political nation the paradoxes of globalized world where intensely realized the right of nations to self-determination and creation their own states but where at the same time in order the realization of this right are destroying the “old” national-state formations and “old” political nations.
  As a consequence, there are two types of the state in the modern  world: nationalized and denationalized. There is also the third type of the state which like modern Ukraine is hovering between modern and postmodern and between nationalized and denationalized types of the statehood and where political nation is extremely unstable.
  Respectively there emerges a phenomenon of denationalized citizenship and redefine traditional notions of citizenship as intrinsically linked with the nation-state. Such denationalized citizens does not consider the nation-state as being necessary for political participation and identity.
  Such situations results in the emergence of international politics of double standards when developed nations condemned nationalist ideology in the developing nations aimed to the building of national identity and classical state of national type  but in the «right» cases encourage separatist tendencies.
    The hostage of this policy which is designated in the article as «hovering between modern and postmodern» is the  Ukraine like many other countries of «the Eastern bloc» became the independent in the age of postmodern globalization.

Сингулярність за умов бурхливого розвитку конвергентних технологій чет-вертого покоління («Індустрія 4.0») перетворилася нині на один з ключових тер-мінів для філософських роздумів про майбутнє людини й людства (Human 2.0). Філософські міркування щодо сингулярності стосуються багатьох розділів філо-софії включно з історією філософії, метафізикою, філософією науки, філософі-єю техніки тощо. Філософські міркування про майбутнє «по той бік точки сингулярності» не є міркуваннями поза межами науковості. Дійсно, йдеться про те, чого поки що ре-ально не існує й що неможливо уявити, якщо вважати наші уявлення принципо-во обмеженими відчуттями й сприйняттями. Але творча уява людини є наслідком її вродженого намагання здолати природу включно зі своєю власною людською природою, результатом самотрансцендування й самоподолання. Ключові слова: конвергентні технології, надлюдина, антропоцентризм, cингу-лярність, технологічна сингулярність, сингулярітaріанізм, трансцензус, трансгу-манізм, постгуманізм, рóботи.
Ozhevan Mykola BEYOND TECHNOLOGICAL SINGULARITY: DILEMMA OF HUMANISTIC RESTRICTIONS AND UNLIMITED «POSTHUMAN» DEVELOPMENT «Singularity» is one of the key terms for philosophical reflection on the future of human beings (Human 2.0) in the conditions of rapid development of convergent technologies of the fourth generation («Industry 2.0»). The philosophical thoughts about the singularity intersect many areas, including the history of philosophy, metaphysics, the philosophy of science, the philosophy of technics etc. The philosophical arguments about the future «beyond the point of singularity» aren't beyond the scientific considerations. Indeed, the question is what still does not really exist and is impossible for imagination, if we assume that our understanding is fundamentally limited by sensations and perceptions. But creative imagination of human being is the result of innate desire to overcome the nature including the nature of human being, the result of self-trancensus and self-overcoming.

Communicative model of education on time of nonlinear thinking

The communications - not only an information exchange inside the big or small social group, and also between such groups. In full conformity with a reference value latin "communis" ("generality") the communications - indispensable means and the purpose of processes of social designing. And education in wide understanding of this concept is constructive communicative processes.
External and internal communications which are supported with the certain social organization, have strategic value from the point of view of achievement of the organizational purposes, effective management. However, nowadays understanding of  the phenomenon of the communications gets it the ontologic status. The culture as a whole is thought as hypercommunicative process.
From the point of view of communicative strategy of functioning of human consciousness and education they  lose linear monologicality (getting instead «polylogicality"); definiteness in time and space and subject - substantial filling.   
In teaching it means increase of tendencies to self-education and self-education, decrease in efficiency of manipulations and to increase of counterhandling strategy in a context  of “ pedagogics of cooperation ”. 
The technologies of education based of a hypertext communicative reality mean interactivity and autocreativity.  The hypertext thinking has a holographic  basis and consequently is represented sn a network educational process in the information society, compatible only with socratic type of the person  which "knows only that knows nothing”.

Homo ex Machina. Philosophical, cultural and political background
formation of a convergent society: a monograph by Mykola Ozhevan and Dmytro Dubov. Kyiv: The National Institute for Strategic Studies. 2017. 272 pp. Bibliography 252-272 pp. – In Ukrainian.

The monograph covers the issues of the emergence of a convergent type of society, as a society of human and technological innovations associated with the new quality of human nature.
The philosophical foundations this new type of society, the essential features of transhumanism and singularity, the transmutation of classical political and philosophical theories in a new technological era are considered.
The problem of transformation of the global information society into the space of collision and competition of modern states, the influence of modern technologies on the concept of state sovereignty within the framework of the construction of "digital sovereignty" is thoroughly covered in this book.
Separately analyzed the impact of technology Industry 4.0 (primarily robotics) on military affairs thorough the analysis of the current opportunities and prospects of Ukraine in the context of the development of Industry 4.0 technologies and the ability to build a national innovation system.

MYKOLA OZHEVAN
TECHNOPHILIA VS. TECHNOPHOBIA IN THE
CULTURES: THE UKRAINIAN PROJECTIONS
The report on II International Scientific and Practical Conference "Internationalization of higher education in Ukraine in the conditions of the multicultural world space: state, problems, perspectives 
(Kyiv. March 18-19. 2018)
Cultures as a cardinal sign of their commitment or non-commitment to the new  technological inventions are appropriate to be divided into four types:
• technophile-donor (innovative);
• technophilic-adopterian;
• technophile-translation;
• technophobic.
The first three technophile versions mean the emergence of a culture and certain technologies of mutual symbiosis, which leads to the formation of civilization.
In cases of "technophobia," such a symbiosis can either not be formed at all, or is non-persistent due the certain socio-technical reasons/
Such technophobic tribes (ethnos) can having more or less developed cultures but do not yet reach the stage of "civilization" in terms of its world or any regional criteria.

The peculiarity of media experts (in the English-speaking tradition - "Pundits"), which is also ironically called "talking heads", is their active involvement in the realization of such proactive functions as mediation; the reduction of a complex to a simple by creating the "truth"; legitimizing power; outlining situations; setting priorities ("agenda"), etc. The development of online networks has generated the phenomena of expert bloggers and "networked expertise".
The pool of Western analysts and journalists participating in "active measures" organized by Russian intelligence agencies (actively called "Active Measures") attracts attention.
Preferably, such "pandits" on the side of the Russian Federation involves in western countries  from non-conformists who are on the left and right margins of political thought, having limited means of communicating their anti-memory conspiracy views to the mass audience. Thus, a sort of functional exchange took place: the Russian political leadership gave the western marginal thinkers powerful broadcast channels and information, and they, through their academic and political circles, reinforced Moscow propaganda in the West with impressions of identity and authenticity.

The peculiarity of media experts (in the English-speaking tradition  "Pundit"), which is also ironically called "talking heads", is their active involvement in the realization of such proactive functions as mediation; the reduction of a complexity to a simplicity by creating the "truth"; what legitimizing power; outlining situations; setting priorities ("agenda"), etc. The development of online networks has generated the phenomena of expert bloggers and "networked expertise".
The pool of Western analysts and journalists participating in "active measures" organized by Russian intelligence agencies (actively called "Active Measures") attracts attention in this article.
Preferably, such "pandits" of the modern Russian Federation involves from non-conformists who are on the left and right margins of political thought, having limited means to communicating their conspiracy anti-memory views to the mass audience. Thus, a sort of functional exchange took place: the Russian political leadership gave the western marginal thinkers relative powerful broadcast and information channels and they vice versa trough their academic and political circles reinforced Moscow propaganda in the West with impressions of identity and authenticity.