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“The very project of globalization is in crisis today”
Volodymyr Lupatsiy, Executive Director of the Center for Social Studies Sofia  Today there is no panacea for Ukraine either in global or integration projects. Copying of foreign development projects bear no success and security even in mid-term prospect. Only innovations and modernization of the existing system of state administration can help Ukraine to meet challenges of globalization.
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Militarization of economy is a paradoxical result of globalization
Yuri Pavlenko, Ph.D., Institute of World Economy and International Relations The main collision of globalization consists in the fact that the more developed is the world economy the bigger is the disparity in the allocation of revenues among different countries in relative and absolute indices.
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We have to rid of the complex of a Russian colony
Lada Lesia Roslytska, Jurist of Public International Law, Independent Security Expert  In order to tackle global problems you need international cooperation; in order to protect the interests of your own country, you need conscious and professional state administration.
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“We lack energy to resist globalization”
Yevhen Sverstiuk, author, philosopher, human rights defender  It is not a matter of isolation; we should build a secure foundation for our nation permitting self-esteem and cultivating self-consciousness. Now self-esteem is a #1 problem for our society.
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“Ukraine is our major challenge”
Volodymyr Nikitin, Assistant Director for Development Matters, International Center for Advanced Studies, Doctor of Culturology  Globalization is like a rain which falls despite your having an umbrella, or not; the problem is whether Ukraine intends to be a player or a material for alien games.
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“So far we cannot resist external pressure”
Yaroslav Zhalilo, President of the Center for anti-crisis studies  The main challenge for Ukraine consists in the necessity to form a new model of competitiveness; other economic problems depend on it. Sweeping competitiveness should include hi-tech market in the first place; meanwhile developmental lag is a serious challenge for Ukraine.
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Globalization as a cultural factor
Myroslav Marynovych, Vice-Rector of the Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv  I am afraid most of all that globalization can degenerate into a fight of several globalizing civilizations. Russia repeats time and again that it can resist American civilization only having globalized the post-Soviet space and offering Russian, or even quasi-Soviet mass culture. On the other hand, we have a western variant of mass culture, which also aims at taking its place here.
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Events push Ukraine to become a regional leader
Rustem Zhangozha, leading researcher of the Institute of International Economy  Concept of globalization is so wide, that it escapes strict definition. At times there are almost contrary definitions.
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Globalization Chinese Style: the quieter you boil, the more you eat
Volodyslav Sednev, Sinologist, Institute of World Economy  Understanding of the place and role of Ukraine in modern world, in those global political, economic and spiritual transformations, which readily emerge, is impossible without the elaborate study of the experience of those countries, which within a short historic period attained effective results in socioeconomic reformation of their own society. It is evident, that China is the first country to come to mind.
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“Ukraine needs to maximally integrate into international systems of collective security
Olexandr Sushko, Director of the Center for Peace, Conversion and Foreign Policy of Ukraine  In the past peoples could live on for centuries knowing nothing about existence of one another; now we observe an impressive global variety. However, if the tolerance barrier is low, aggression aimed at the alien can be triggered.
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„You can ride out any crisis”
Oleg Zarubinskiy, Acting Chairman of the Committee for European Integration  In some way or another we cannot escape global threats. Ukraine may suffer less from terrorism than the United States; however, as far as our peacemaking unit is still in Iraq, the wave of terrorism may well reach our country.
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Different countries have different answers to globalization challenges
Yuri Mykolayovych Pakhomov, Academician of the NAS of Ukraine, Director of the Institute of world economy and international relations of the NAS of Ukraine  The stereotype of conduct, related to the rationality of thought, western individualism and self-sufficiency is the major element of civilization success, instead of resources, as it can appear on the face of it.
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Not all societies are able to outlive globalization
Andriy Yermolayev, Director of the Center for social research Sofia  National and regional economies which seemed perspective and self-sufficient early in the 21 c., can in no time mutate into the appendages of global systems, where global specialization leads the way.
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“Ukraine is in an unstable and dangerous transitional area, or as they say “neither here, nor there”
Yaroslav Matiychyk, Expert of the Group of strategic and security studies (Kyiv)  Ultimately, for Ukraine only two things really matter: future eastern geostrategy of the EU and future geopolitics of Russia. If the former lets us down and the latter scares us, Ukraine will be forced to tend toward respective sectors of policy of the USA and China.
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“Only lack of money or brains can push one to oppose global challenges”
Serhiy Teleshun, Doctor of Political Sciences, Prof., President of Spivdruzhnist Fund  To find our way in the globalizing world we need not only democracy (we have it already), but civil society as well determining the maturity of democracy.
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To globalize world in a non-violent way
Olexandr Shmorhun, Candidate of Philosophy, Senior Researcher of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations  The determination of the geopolitical vector of Ukraine is becoming more difficult. There is a variety of factors to it, including obvious ones: instability of structures we intended to join.
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