External functions of a modern state in the context of globalization: conceptual and constitutional aspects

The article is focused on research of the globalization process at the modern stage of overall global social development. It is becoming a firmly established fact that globalisation as an objective and inevitable process of any country determines the orientation of Ukraine on integration with the international community and inclusion in the processes of planetary scale in all functioning spheres of the society. Based on the analysis and synthesis of different approaches to understanding globalization and its consequences, it is concluded that globalization is a complex, internally contradictory process of interaction and interdependence of various participants in international relations (states, international organizations, multinational companies, other participants) across all major directions of their functional activities. Contradictions between national and supra-national interests produce interstate conflicts, require strengthening of the protective function of law and state.