NATIO-BUILDING: CONTROVERSIAL ASPECTS OF THEORY AND INSTRUCTIVE IMPLICATIONS OF PRACTICE

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УДК 316.3:323

ORCID: 0000-0002-2475-0370

DOI 10.37566/2707-6849-2025-1(50)-7

Ivan KOTIUK,

Doctor of Law, Professor

NATIO-BUILDING: CONTROVERSIAL ASPECTS OF THEORY AND INSTRUCTIVE IMPLICATIONS OF PRACTICE

Democratization of social relations, as a result of which Ukrainian scientists have become independent participants in European scientific discussions, updated the need to rethink many national scientific concepts with adherence to generally accepted academic principles. This also applies to concepts «Ethnic» and «civil» nationalism, which obliges them to reveal their principles, the falsity of the individual used in substantiating the arguments, and to offer qualitatively new approaches to understanding these issues. In particular, the reasons that led to these concepts were: 1) demonization nationalism as a state policy; 2) false understanding of the notions of «nationality» «Nation», «nationalism», «patriotism»; 3) identification of the concepts of «country» and «state» and the relationship between man and society and man and state. The article substantiates that: 1) if nationalism can only be ethnic, the notion of «civilian nationalism», «civilian nation», «Civil society» contain logical errors and is the same as that «Civilians»; 2) the conclusion is «a civilian nation instead of an ethnic one statehood», is also false because the statehood is already under such an approach supposedly absent; 3) if love for one's people (ethnic patriotism) exists an integral part of love for the Motherland, then ethnic and territorial identity complement each other; 4) Territorial patriotism is the basis cosmopolitanism; 5) the modern word «nation» is supernatural (supernethic) community, the components of which are all citizens of the state regardless of their nationality and religion. The concept of a «political nation» was aimed at taking advantage of it sovereignty of the state as a «melting pot», dissolve in it and the title nation, and all other ethnic groups and create a new historical community – the nation of the American model. However, in Ukraine, the formation of a nation for this could not have happened as an American nation the state, and for the Ukrainian nation, which was formed naturally, its own state was its national idea, which focused on the welcoming need to create it. That is why it is not a project, but a logical one the result of the manifestation of the collective subconscious, which is at the genetic level constantly urges the Ukrainian people to realize its national an instinct based on the principles and rights of the soil, and the right of blood, that is characteristic only for national statehood.

Key words: nationalitu, citizenship, nationalism, cosmopolite, nation, State, ethnic nationalism, citizenship nationalism, national State.

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