Public Policy Agenda in a Turbulent World

Abstract

The world is experiencing dramatic transformations determined by political and economic shifts in the roles of the West and the East, the North and the South. These changes pose huge challenges on the global and national levels, testing international institutions and national governments and creating crises on all levels and in different spheres. The article examines how the public policy agenda is changing under permanent shocks. The author comes to the conclusion that the public policy agenda is under the pressure of short-term and emergency-oriented tasks in expense of strategic issues, but in order to provide sustainable development, the governments should support long-term projects, internal social coherence and external mutual dialogue, using the most advanced tools of social and natural sciences, as well as the opportunities of digitalization. Only this proactive, but careful and civilizationally grounded approach will provide peaceful solution of current and future challenges.