GLOBAL CHALLENGES IN THE CONTEXT OF FORMATION OF THE MODERN CIVIL SOCIETY

Abstract

INTRODUCTION Current problems of social development become increasingly global in their nature. Each country is tasked with ensuring a decent level of social and economic development, national security, and protection of rights and freedoms of citizens. However, in todays’ globalized world no country can develop and implement its own public policy independently, without recourse to international institutions. Evolution of contemporary stage of development of civil society depends not only on internal factors (cultural and historical, social and economic, geographic location, etc.), but also on external factors, associated with impact of globalization processes. This results in increase of a number of actors of the international system who cooperate on a global level, intergovernmental and international nongovernmental organizations, international financial institutions and transnational corporations, military and political organizations and alliances; global media, etc. Processes such as globalization, democratization, postindustrialization, emergence of a large number of problems of a global scale, formation of universal civilization significantly increased the need to understand and study the civil society more profoundly. The best strategy of the State in terms of the globalization is close cooperation with society, delegation of powers to local self-government, to civil society organizations. Functioning of civil society in the context of globalization is that the functions of the civil society are extended to the supranational level that translates into the activity of international organizations. In this case, global civil society opposes the bureaucracy of international level 1 .