Peculiarities of informational and psychological influence on social consciousness as a destructive tool in the conditions of conducting the information-psychological war are considered in the article. The danger of informational and psychological influence on the citizens’ consciousness is that such influence changes the normal behavior of people, their reactions to the surrounding world. It makes the person's psyche vulnerable and encourages the individual to destructive actions against society. This is a danger not only for the psychological state of an individual member of society, but also for the whole country. The purpose of the study is to reveal the peculiarities of informational and psychological influence on social consciousness in the conditions of the information-psychological war. The research was conducted using the following methods: methods of mathematical statistics, experiment, prosopographical method. It was proved that the verification of information received from the media is not verifiable by representatives of student youth on the basis of the survey. Informational and psychological influence is an important tool for conducting the information-psychological wars and operations. It is seriously detrimental to social consciousness. Young people need special protection because the future of the country depends on them. It is noted that there is a need to develop mechanisms for protecting young people from negative informational and psychological influence. The media must submit proven information in a dosed form using a simple vocabulary. Government agencies should develop rules of work in the Internet space of the state, which will help to protect society as a whole, and student youth in particular, from the negative informational and psychological influence.

This research is called to explain the weak reaction of the Government of Ukraine to the implementation of the Association Agreement terms during 2015-2019, namely through the prism of the high level of corruption in the country. Since the proclamation of Ukraine's independence, one of the important directions of its foreign policy has been cooperation with the European Union. A new stage in the relations between the parties was the signing in 2014 of a highly important document of the Association Agreement, establishing a new level of cooperation between Ukraine and the EU. According to the document, Ukraine had committed itself to fulfill several important conditions that would contribute to further intensification of cooperation with the EU. These include the ones reforming the political, economic, social, and environmental spheres. Despite a number of actions taken, Ukraine is still slow to meet its obligations under the Agreement, especially in the spheres of education, training and youth, transportation, transport infrastructure, postal and courier services, public procurement, the environment, and civil protection. One of the reasons for this is the high level of in-country corruption.

The paper highlights the peculiarities of teaching the students of the specialty International Relations, Law and History professionally oriented disciplines when the attention is paid to the study of professional disciplines. After mastering the core materials of the discipline, the students should know all the components of these disciplines and be able to apply their knowledge in practice. We have confirmed by our research that for the modern student to be able to master all knowledge and skills, modern lecturers at their lectures and seminars should change the teaching methods, tending more to the use of interactive methods, which, compared to the traditional ones, are much more efficient for providing the educational process. Among the modern interactive teaching methods, such methods as Circle of Ideas, Aquarium, Microphone, and Role Play, Imitation deserve special attention, and their use promotes students' cognitive abilities, creative thinking, quick decision making, work in groups, thus stimulating the development of communication skills, and mainly the interest of the student in learning. In the conditions of a pandemic (2020-2021), as the experiment showed, it is also possible for teachers to use interactive methods in teaching professional disciplines for students of the above specialties.

Публічна дипломатія Швеції поступально розвивається ось уже упродовж сімдесяти років. Початковою метою публічної дипломатії Швеції було позбавлення від негативних наслідків політики нейтралітету в період Другої світової війни, а упродовж 50-80-х рр. ХХ ст. – зробити країну більш помітною на міжнародній арені за допомогою паралельного просування національних особливостей та інтересів. Публічна дипломатія Швеції значно видозмінюється у 1990-х рр., змістивши свій фокус уваги на особливості культурного і суспільного життя, при цьому практично уникаючи актуальної політичної повістки.

Дана стаття присвячена висвітленню розвитку політичних і дипломатичних відносин між Китайською Народною Республікою та країнами Латинської Америки. Прагнучи стабільності енергетичної безпеки та світового лідерства уряд КНР ще на початку 1990-х рр. проголошує співпрацю з країнами цього континенту одними з пріоритетних, хоча налагодження контактів і встановлення дипломатичних відносин було розпочате ще до розпаду біполярної системи міжнародних відносин. Використовуючи принцип «м’якої сили», КНР інтенсивно розвиває дані відносини з латиноамериканськими країнами. Про важливість яких говорять і самі ці країни, називаючи Китай пріоритетним партнером. Дана стаття є спробою у хронологічній послідовності висвітлити розвиток відносин між країнами до 2020 р., вказавши ключові аспекти цієї співпраці.