NATIONAL TRADITIONS OF DIPLOMACY AS THE KEY TO UKRAINE'S REVIVAL

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to prove the hypothesis: the national expierience of Ukraine’s Diplomacy is a bases of future revival of Ukrainean State. The author examined all stages of the development of Ukraine’s diplomacy: from Kievan Rus to the nowadays. Chekalenko Liudmyla proved main concept of historical periodization of this process. The main idea of author is based on a principally important concept of the formation and development of the foreign policy paradigm of Ukraine during a significant historical period of Ukrainian statehood. Our state, same as its policy, originates from the Trypillya culture, develops through the Skiff era and forms a powerful Kyievan Rus. The author proved that the roots of tolerance, respect for each other, non-interference in the internal affairs of other states, diplomatic protocol, etc. have been laid in Ukrainian diplomacy since ancient times in the Byzantine Empire. This is in those times that not only the general concept of the world and human existence but also the principles of international existence, patriotism, humanism, tolerance, conventional relations and diplomacy by Bizantic influence were formed on our lands. Next period that covers the times of Cossack State contains a lot of elements of the statehood and foreign policy activity of those times that were inherited and developed by the Cossack Army. Ukrainian Diplomacy during the Cossack state period, according to the author, initiated the military foundations of diplomatic means and foreign policy decisions. The author came to this conclusion after analyzing numerous documents from the era of Bohdan Khmelnytskyi's hetmanship. The period of the years 1917–1920 is marked by the struggle for the independence of the Ukrainian state, civilized entrance into the world of international relations, use of diplomatic means and methods to defend the Ukrainian interests. The article proves that the Diplomacy of Ukraine in 1917–1920 acquired signs of Europeanness and modernity, which meets the criteria of international law laid down in the diplomatic foundation of the development of the state's foreign policy structures. In the period of Soviet existence, the forms of international activity of Ukraine within the USSR were being under review. Ukraine was deprived of its own foreign policy and diplomacy, and was completely dependent on Moscow. Unfortunately, at that times Ukraine was more often not a subject but object of the foreign policy and deplomacy in the above-mentioned periods when the овідає The problem was compounded by the fact that throughout the centuries of its rule, the Russian Empire did not recognize the existence of the Ukrainian people and Ukraine, its culture, language, and traditions. The tsarist centuries were supplemented by 70 years of Soviet power, when the communist party ruled the U.S.S.R. Textbooks were written specifically about the history of the Soviet russia and not about Ukraine. Only with the independence of Ukraine did it become possible to write and publish our own Ukrainian textbooks about the objective history of our people.