Ukraine’s Challenges of Foreign policy Determination in the Context of World Influence Centers’ Choice

Abstract

Based on the results of several studies conducted by leading sociological centers, it is being illustrated a polarization (according to number of) in the foreign policy preferences of Ukrainian citizens. The article substantiates the responsibility of world powers for determining the exit strategies of Ukrainian society from the denoted crisis. In this rigid adherence to the paradigm of "civilization" choice that is offered to Ukraine is characterized as the preservation of the imperial paradigm of perception of processes occurring in the modern globalized society. Applied to Ukrainian society there is a necessity of finding unconventional consensus and not so much "civilization", but "civilized" solutions.