У статті досліджується зміст та визначаються основні напрями наукових досліджень сучасних міжнародних відносин. Проаналізовано тенденції взаємовідносин у глобальному світі суб’єктів міжнародного публічного права, зокрема, за такими напрямами, як глобалізація сучасного світу, збільшення кількості й ролі неурядових і міжурядових суб’єктів міжнародних відносин та міжнародна безпека. Визначено основні перспективні напрями наукових досліджень сучасних міжнародних відносин: 1) трансформацію навчальних дисциплін міжнародного спрямування; 2) визначення «архітектури» нового світопорядку; 3) створення сучасних міжнародних механізмів протидії агресії.
The article attempts to examine the content and define the main research areas of international relations. The necessity of a comprehensive analysis of international relations through scientific methods of cognition is grounded. It is proved that teaching disciplines of international direction in higher educational institutions, it is necessary to move away from state-centered model of the world inherited from the Soviet science, and to focus on the dynamics of contemporary international relations. The author reviews the papers offering concepts and approaches with attempts of reflection of characteristics of the political structure of the modern world and the tendencies of its restructuring.
The paper outlines the major trends of relations in the global world of subjects of public international law, including such areas as: 1) globalization of the modern world; 2) increase of the number and role of non-governmental and intergovernmental actors in international relations; 3) international security. Attention is paid to different approaches in determining globalization, universality and multidimensionality of this relevant phenomenon. The author argues that contemporary globalization is associated with a qualitatively new stage in the development of communication and information. The paper represents the development of the debate on the crisis of the Westphalian system of the world and the Yalta-Potsdam system of international relations. It outlines ways of finding a new model of relations between subjects of international law. The author analyzes Russian actions against the sovereign state of Ukraine manifested in the annexation of its territory and gross military invasion on the eastern border as the basis of review of international mechanisms to counteract aggression of the states. The following basic directions of scientific research of international relations are determined to be perspective: 1) transformation of educational subjects of international direction; 2) determination of the “architecture” of the new world order; 3) the creation of modern international mechanisms for countering aggression. The attention is paid to the fact that in today's world, not only state borders become transparent, but also the borders between different disciplines, subject areas which are somehow related to politics and international relations. The author raises a problem of creating a new world order as one of the key problems in studies of international relations after the collapse of the bipolar world system. The assumption that despite the military conflict between two UN Member States there is an urgent need for a more modern, adapted to the technological level of the information society of XXI century, mechanisms against aggression, a new model of pressure on countries that do not wish to comply with international agreements and threaten the peaceful existence of nations is argued.
