NATIONAL INTERESTS AND VALUES OF UKRAINE (APPLIED AND METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF RESEARCH)

The article discusses theoretical and methodological issues of national values and interests as a problem of social and administrative implementation. Attention is drawn to the conditions, prerequisites and driving forces for the development of the most significant values of Ukraine. The issues of concretization and systematization of national values of various significance are discussed. A fractal model of interrelations of national values is considered from the point of view of the system-parametric interpretation. Particular attention is paid to the issue of anti-values, that are considered as an important problem of national security. In the Ukrainian context, national values are discussed as a key issue of the subjectivity of a free and independent civil nation. On the basis of the study of certain problems of national values, which have been worked out on an expert level, from the standpoint of the parametric general theory of systems and the theory of fractals, some of the most important conclusions are formulated, which have a purposeful setting to receive answers to the modern challenges concerning the mission of the new Ukraine in the world. There are considered the senses, the existence of Ukraine and its peoples in the context of systemic crises, its present formation and future development, as well as taking into account the many factors, including the threatening nature, from which the survival and sustainable existence of Ukrainian are set. These synthesis conclusions are summarized as follows. National values, as a category of the theory of sustainable development and the theory of national security, are extremely poorly developed, especially for countries such as Ukraine, which are in a long-term systemic crisis and under harsh conditions of the transition economy, which is complicated by the tendencies of increasing level of conflicts surrounding the world. One of the important issues of the theory of national values should be considered as the problem of antivalues as a permanent factor, which, in turn, should be regarded as a system of threats to the existence of Ukrainian statehood. Approval of values in the worldview of Ukrainians, the development of their value orientations today is an important task of science. At present, the necessity of setting of the task of forming of the theory and practice of managing of national values in relation to the conditions of great uncertainty of modern processes of transformation and the consequences of those or other decisions that are difficult to predict is actualized.