HUMAN AND SOCIAL CAPITAL OF UKRAINE IN THE PERIOD OF ITS POST-WAR RECONSTRUCTION

Abstract

The war started by the Russian Federation against Ukraine has a civilizational character, it is a confrontation between European and Eurasian civilizations. The war gave impetus to global changes in the world geopolitical and geoeconomic order. The world is becoming bipolar - the USA and China will lead their respective poles, which represent democracy and autocracy. In order to occupy a worthy place in this new world, Ukraine must be reborn in the European quality of its political, social and economic life. It was determined that economic revival requires, first of all, the reproduction of the country's human and social capital, adequate to European values. The cultural phenomenon of the nation as the basis for their reproduction is substantiated. Education as a component of national culture is of crucial importance in the formation of high-quality human and social capital. The state of higher and vocational education is analyzed, the main directions of its reformation in the context of post-war development of the state are determined. It was established that Ukraine should actively reproduce its social capital as the ability of citizens to take collective action in order to achieve the common goal of joining the EU and NATO. To this end, the state must create conditions for forming a high level of trust between citizens as well as citizens’ trust in state structures. It was substantiated that this calls for a new structure and content of state administration, the main element of which should be the minimum possible level of centralized decision-making and management of decision implementation. It was proved that information policy, which aims to convince the world that Ukraine is potentially important subject of international economic and political relations, is important for stimulating the revival of Ukraine.