Ukrainian national statehood and state legal tradition: methodological approaches to research

Abstract. The methodological approaches of research of the scientific problem of the Ukrainian national statehood and state-legal tradition are covered. It is emphasized that the tool for studying various aspects of the subject of research should be the application of the achievements of several mutually complementary scientific approaches to civilization, frontier and synergetic. In the context of the first, in particular, it is emphasized that the Eurocentric orientation of all modernist versions of the emergence of the nation. Our own understanding of the Eurocentrism of nations as a phenomenon that embodies a purely European tradition and means a certain typological and conceptual similarity of the values that were the basis for the evolution of European nations is proposed. Key words: methodology of legal science, methodological approaches in historical and legal scientific research.