Almanac of law. Issue 11 (2020), pages 33–42.
DOI: 10.33663/2524-017X-2020-11-6
ISSN Print 2524-017X
Batanov O. V.
The Doctrine of Modern Unitarism: Problems of Formation and Realization
The conceptual problems of the formation of the national doctrine of unitarism are covered. Recognizing the fact that the most multifaceted and complex problem is the establishment of the optimal form of government in Ukraine, it is proposed to introduce a separate vector in national constitutional science and education. In spite of the fact that in the field of political and legal science in general and modern constitutionalism, the issue of unitarism is quite actively discussed by scholars, scientists, politicians and public figures, the scientific knowledge in this field remains extremely controversial and fragmentary.
Analyzing the complex of essential and substantive characteristics of unitarism as a phenomenon of modern constitutional law, outlines perspective directions of development of the unitarian doctrine. The synergistic connection between the theory of modern unitarism, the principles of unitarity of the state territory and the fundamental institutions of political-legal and state-administrative life of modern unitary states is shown. It proves that the unitary system is not only one of the important components of the process of achieving the tasks, goals and functions of most modern states, but also an immanent feature and strategic element of the mechanism of exercising their sovereign rights.
Considering that unitarism is a multidimensional socio-political and constitutional phenomenon: it is an idea, a theory, a scientific direction, and a global social and constitutional practice, and a constitutional form of the existence and functioning of territorial communities, and the historical state of national statehood and Ukrainian regional civilization, and the form of realization of national identity and citizenship, etc., concludes the relevance and necessity of forming a unitarianist discourse in modern constitutional law science and education.
In the opinion of the author, consistent conceptualization and institutionalization of the unitarianist doctrine will allow us to understand the deep processes that determine the emergence of the phenomenon of national unitarism, testify to the enormous civilizational role and axiological, ontological, epistemological, functional and psycho-logical features in the course of its political structuring, formation of market economy relations, implementation of eco-humanistic national security and defence.
Keywords: unitarism, unitarian, territory, state, state system, unitary system, administrative and territorial system.
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Oleksandr Vasilyevich Batanov,
leading researcher
of the Department of Constitutional Law
and Local Self-Government
of the V. M. Koretsky Institute of State and Law
of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine,
Doctor of Law, Professor