The aim of the article was to identify the current status and problems of Ukraine’s regional associations, and discuss them in the context of supranational challenges and the COVID-19 pandemic. Observation, the comparative method and the neo-institutional approach were the main methodological tools involved. The investigation found that Ukraine intends to establish various coalitions, blocs and alliances to develop the foreign policy vector. Countries that thrive to be regional actors, as well as NATO and EU Member States, engage in this type of cooperation. A gradual intensification of the growth of the country’s regional leadership was revealed through a comparative study of Ukraine’s cooperation with different countries and their partnerships. The authors of the research supported the point of view of adherents to the concept that Ukraine is interested in the political discourse of regional leadership.It is concluded that expanding the country’s political and economic opportunities is an appropriate context for reforming the Western vectors of Ukraine’s foreign policy. It demonstrated the great potential of regional partnerships, of which Ukraine is a member, to improve democracy.

Geopolitical tensions in the world are recognised as the first in the list of threats to the progress and potential of the 21st century. It is impossible to understand the essence of this geopolitical tension without clarifying the semantics of the adjective “geopolitical”, which, in turn, requires elucidation of the meaning of the concept of geopolitics, as outlined by its author – Swedish historian Rudolf Kjellen. The occasion of appealing to the figure of this researcher can be considered the fulfilment in 2021 of 105 years since the publication of his fundamental work “The State as a Living Organism.” Namely: why R. Kjellen is talking about the “immortality of territorial domination” as opposed to the “perishability of the state”; whether digital technologies cancel “immortality of territorial domination” and, accordingly, geopolitics are abolished; which is hidden behind calls to abandon geopolitics as some “scientific nonsense.” It is concluded that, first, in light of R. Kjellen 's doctrine of the state, the latter is doomed to destruction in case of refusal to build its own system of “territorial domination” in favour of another state, which, of course, does so in view of ensuring its own self-preservation and its own viability.

In due course Robert Heinlain in his known essay «On the Writing of Speculative Fiction» (1947) noticed that there are at least two topics fantastic story can be devoted, to wit: gadgets and people [1]. However, degree of concentration on the latter topic determines speculative fiction focalized not on science and technology as themselves but on human reaction to new situations caused by science and technology. «Popular science and wellestablished principles in speculative science fiction history are extrapolated to create the new situation, new frameworks for human activities. New human problems will emerge due to such new situation…», writes the master [1]. Then: «…human being finds himself into circumstances creating a problem to him. Having managed the problem a human being will change itself to a certain extent. History will come to the end when inward changes would be accomplishedoutward events can go on endlessly» [1].New problems, reaction to them by a human being,search for solutions, making then a reality, which, by-turn, is impossible without interaction to other people, and, as a result,inward changes of a human being itself (professional advancement and moral and psychological maturation)aren't all those on the edge of current management education? Aren't those issues forming its agenda, exciting lecturers, students and employers? Add to it also the indubitable fact that managerial activity, as search and practical implementation of «new reactions to new problems» is inherent to human being who is both manager concerning urgency of such implementation and its immediate executor. What way could members of speculative fiction help us today? Let me assertwith management directives, which they put in the mouth of characters of their works. (By the way, my project «Management Directives from «Big Three» fiction writers» [See: [2]).The said management directives can be divided into several categories. First of all,maintaining for importance of forming the ability of human being to theoretical thinking and cognition as to naturally accomplished

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