RUSSIA AND UKRAINE: CURRENT PROBLEMS OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS IN THE CONDITIONS OF THE NEW NORMALITY

Abstract

The intellectual challenges of modern political relations of the socio-technical structure are caused by a number of the most diverse factors: 1) the collapse of classical epistemology, based on the principles of linear causation, cognizability; 2) the speed of socio-technical changes and agile nature of environment; 3) the postcolonial nature of communication and advancement of knowledge; 4) the fragility of social order. The very awareness of the environment in which we find ourselves is already a problem and has given rise to many concepts such as synergy, nonstationarity, VUCA, new normality, Janus-likeness. The relevance of the topic is associated with the dialectics of the complexity of the development of civilization, threats to sustainable development. The complexity, multifactorial nature, and instability of the global socio-technical reality do not contribute to adaptation to a special state of the environment, which cannot be unambiguously defined as order (space) or chaos. The article suggests that we must plan for the sustainable development of mankind and move on to the policy of new pragmatism. Thus, in the conditions of the new normality, a new paraconsistent political thinking is required in Russian-Ukrainian relations. All parties to the conflict lack reflexivity, and on the ideological plane, they are fighting a fictitious image of the enemy. Old ideologemes such as “Russian aggression” or “Bandera’s” are not productive in describing the Other. We need a new pragmatism based on territorial proximity, economics and logistics. The author proceeds from the deontic modality, believing that Russia and Ukraine do not sufficiently use the resource of reflexivity in a complex political game. Non-classical society and the complexity of processes and social systems do not allow successfully implementing a linear management model for complex political and economic processes. The reflexive approach allows one to adequately study the metastable states of the counterparty, relying on the context of its values. Ukraine, like any frontier culture, is an amalgam that arose at the junction of the Polish, Russian, Lithuanian, Turkish, and Jewish worlds. The correct construction of a supra-ethnic multilingual nation is the secret of Ukraine's success. This solution is very modern, since the global trend is pluralism and multipolarity.