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In a famous article from 1959, David Easton claimed that political anthropology has nothing to tell a political scientist, since it does not treat the state as a separate sphere. To make such a claim, Easton had to assume stability in the distribution of functions between the Westphalian state & the co-existing society, similarity between European Westphalian states, & likeness between the European state & all other states in the world. Fifty years later it seems to be clear why Easton was mistaken, & why state comparisons that do not problematize the historical & sociological conditions of every single state formation have failed. If one wants to understand the state in the age of globalization, the point of departure must be to ask how the relationship between state & society continuously changes, not if it does. As Easton points out, this is exactly what political anthropology mainly has focused on. The article gives an overview of how this has been done, from Lewis Henry Morgan to James C. Scott. It calls on political scientists to study the state empirically to a higher degree, as an endogenous part of the analysis or a dependent variable, rather than treating it as either a given starting point, an exogenous part of the analysis, or an independent variable. 44 References. Adapted from the source document.

At present, besides confessional states, assuming the existence of one official religion, there are some secular states been characterized by the Church separation from the state and the state – from the Church. The secular states assume a Church – State relations system based on the division to be commonly identified with the principles of the Church from the state separation. The subject of the article is an analysis of the secular states system. The main methods of the research are the comparison and analysis. Within the secular state system there are two elements to be identified: positive and negative. For the states of the Central and Eastern Europe, the moderate secular state model is an inherent one. It has appeared as a result of totalitarianism been transformed into democracy. The secular state guarantees equality of all churches and relations within its borders. There is no single universal model of the secular state. The secular state system has two variants: a radical separation of the Church from the state or autonomy and cooperation between them. Among secular states with a moderate version, one can point Germany, Italy, Spain, Slovakia, Lithuania, Poland.

On July 9, 2021, the Republic of South Sudan celebrate the 10th anniversary of its independence. This study is an analysis of the functioning of South Sudan as a fullfledged member of the international community. We also analyzed the mistakes made by the government of this young country over the years of its independence and found out what consequences they led.

The article reflects the main processes of building during the development of the Ukrainian state of Hetman P. Skoropadsky. P. Skoropadsky's views on the Ukrainian nation, the Ukrainian state and its form, the relationship of the then political and national forces, the place of Ukraine in the geopolitical space of that time, the main directions and content of the state process, its achievements and miscalculations are analyzed. The views of P. Skoropadsky on the content of the state process in Ukraine in 1918 are analyzed. First of all, on the form of the Ukrainian state - independent or federal. We are talking about the form of government of the Ukrainian state and its political regime. Internal and external factors that influenced this are analyzed. The content of the main directions of activity of the hetman government is investigated both inside the state (central and local government, judicial system, armed forces, agrarian policy, social and cultural construction) and outside (international recognition, establishment of diplomatic relations). It is concluded that the emergence of the Ukrainian state of Hetman P. Skoropadsky was a continuation of the process of creation during the Ukrainian revolution of 1917–1921. This process took place in difficult conditions of the First World War and this circumstance determined the peculiar form of the Ukrainian state and its activities, sometimes they were contradictory and had disagreements with the ideals of the state, which ultimately led to the decline of the Ukrainian state.

The article is devoted to studying of modern state and directions of grain market of Ukraine state regulation. Particular attention is paid to the issues of government policy concerning the conditions' establishing for effective grain market functioning.Grain market of Ukraine state regulation, improvement directions of grain market state regulation mechanism, grain market, grain market development.