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The essay aims to reflect on the Regional Integration in Latin America: first, by stressing the sense of the concept of "Latin America" from a political perspective; then, by underlining the complex nature of this process. The thesis that is intended to be argued is that the most important advances in the field of regional integration have been produced by the jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, in part by abandoning the European integration model

This article seeks to reflect on the methodological problem that dealing with political concepts with a particular historical and geographical frame entails. After stating how conceptual history, German in its origins, has given rise to different lines of thought throughout the Western World, especially in Europe, we explore how this conceptual approach can be used to address political concepts in Latin America from a philosophical-political perspective. ; Questo articolo si propone di discutere il problema metodologico dell'approccio ai concetti politici all'interno di un particolare contesto storico e geografico. A partire dal fatto che la storia concettuale, originariamente tedesca, ha dato origine a specifici percorsi in tutto il mondo occidentale, e soprattutto nel resto d'Europa, ci chiediamo come questo approccio concettuale possa essere utilizzato quando si affrontano i concetti politici in America Latina da una prospettiva filosofico-politica.

The Escazú Agreement, the first environmental treaty to order that signatory States render available all information on the projects which may have an environmental impact, guarantee that citizens participate in decisional processes and adopt measures to protect defenders of indigenous environments and peoples, entered into force on 22 April 2021. Building on these premises, the paper reports some data with the aim of briefly tracing the framework in which environmental activists work. These, together with indigenous peoples, oppose the extractivist development model adopted by the region's government in the last twenty years, which has had – and still has – a significant impact on the environment, has increased social conflicts, and triggered a violence spiral against environmentalists and some indigenous communities, thus transforming Latin America into the most dangerous place for those who protect the environment ; The Escazú Agreement, the first environmental treaty to order that signatory States render available all information on the projects which may have an environmental impact, guarantee that citizens participate in decisional processes and adopt measures to protect defenders of indigenous environments and peoples, entered into force on 22 April 2021. Building on these premises, the paper reports some data with the aim of briefly tracing the framework in which environmental activists work. These, together with indigenous peoples, oppose the extractivist development model adopted by the region's government in the last twenty years, which has had – and still has – a significant impact on the environment, has increased social conflicts, and triggered a violence spiral against environmentalists and some indigenous communities, thus transforming Latin America into the most dangerous place for those who protect the environment

The Escazú Agreement, the first environmental treaty to order that signatory States render available all information on the projects which may have an environmental impact, guarantee that citizens participate in decisional processes and adopt measures to protect defenders of indigenous environments and peoples, entered into force on 22 April 2021. Building on these premises, the paper reports some data with the aim of briefly tracing the framework in which environmental activists work. These, together with indigenous peoples, oppose the extractivist development model adopted by the region's government in the last twenty years, which has had – and still has – a significant impact on the environment, has increased social conflicts, and triggered a violence spiral against environmentalists and some indigenous communities, thus transforming Latin America into the most dangerous place for those who protect the environment.

Nel quadrimestre in considerazione (settembre-dicembre) si sono presi in esame i principali avvenimenti politico-istituzionali avvenuti in America Latina e in particolare la crisi economica e le elezioni del 27 ottobre in Argentina; la crisi politica avvenuta in Bolivia a seguito delle elezioni del 20 ottobre; la rivolta sociale che attraversa il Cile dal 4 ottobre come conseguenza dell'aumento del prezzo dei biglietti della metropolitana; le decisioni politiche del chavismo di Maduro e i rapporti del Governo ufficiale con l'opposizione in Venezuela. L'analisi si conclude con un approfondimento sui più importanti avvenimenti istituzionali e le principali riforme avvenuti in Messico, a cui si rimanda nelle specifiche sezioni dedicate alle istituzioni.

Problem setting. Latin America and the Caribbean traditionally referred to as a large and ambiguous region in an out-side territorial scientific environment. A whole stratum of problems of identities, peculiarities of self-awareness, civilization affiliations of messianic 'appointments ' in the history of the region and the world, the development of ways of cultural and historical development corresponding to them, the affirmation of the tendencies of state formation is in a scientific researcher focus. Among the many aspects that conceptualize the demandfor research in the region and its implementation, we would like to highlight the following: 1) Latin America and the Caribbean are, to some extent, «a territory of historically significant validation of modern trends» in their speculative lengthening, the field ofdeveloping new ones political and economic novations, including regarding various projections of the correlation of socio-political practices, institutional design and legal technologies, derived from the understanding of nature and the purpose of law. 2) The region 'provides ' a wide range of heterogeneous materials for analytical work, both concatenate-linear in nature, and combining poly-meaningful multidimensionality, multifaceted coexistence of values generated by contemporary media, the glare of meanings, signs, intentions of conscious transformations, random «breakthroughs» of network travel followers. In the discovery literature thatfollows only the analysis of statistical indicators, it is often noted that Latin America and the Caribbean is a region of polarization (the territory of the intersection of different values, gaps traditions, lifestyles, indicators of the difference between the needful and the wealth, the level of concentration of income, manifestations of crime, corruption, etc.). 3) Considering the full amount of opportunities and perspectives available, Latin America in general, in some associative formulation, is clearly «boxing at levels below its weight and its impact on ...

Problem setting. Latin America and the Caribbean traditionally referred to as a large and ambiguous region in an out-side territorial scientific environment. A whole stratum of problems of identities, peculiarities of self-awareness, civilization affiliations of messianic 'appointments ' in the history of the region and the world, the development of ways of cultural and historical development corresponding to them, the affirmation of the tendencies of state formation is in a scientific researcher focus. Among the many aspects that conceptualize the demandfor research in the region and its implementation, we would like to highlight the following: 1) Latin America and the Caribbean are, to some extent, «a territory of historically significant validation of modern trends» in their speculative lengthening, the field ofdeveloping new ones political and economic novations, including regarding various projections of the correlation of socio-political practices, institutional design and legal technologies, derived from the understanding of nature and the purpose of law. 2) The region 'provides ' a wide range of heterogeneous materials for analytical work, both concatenate-linear in nature, and combining poly-meaningful multidimensionality, multifaceted coexistence of values generated by contemporary media, the glare of meanings, signs, intentions of conscious transformations, random «breakthroughs» of network travel followers. In the discovery literature thatfollows only the analysis of statistical indicators, it is often noted that Latin America and the Caribbean is a region of polarization (the territory of the intersection of different values, gaps traditions, lifestyles, indicators of the difference between the needful and the wealth, the level of concentration of income, manifestations of crime, corruption, etc.). 3) Considering the full amount of opportunities and perspectives available, Latin America in general, in some associative formulation, is clearly «boxing at levels below its weight and its impact on international canvases», that is, there are some reasons for internal and external character that significantly reduce the region's role in the world, affecting accents of processes of political, legal and economic worsen the work «for the common good», underestimate «the bar of tasks and results» do not meet the expectations of the significance of the region.Recent research and publications analysis. The paper uses an interdisciplinary approach involving the research of representatives of various sciences. Concerning the approach to certain aspects of the constitutional process in the countries of Latin America and the Carribien was used the researches of Ukrainian authors Yu. M. Todyka, V. P. Kolisnyk, Yu. G. Barabash, M. P. Orzikh, T. M. Slinko, A. G. Kushnirenko, pertaining to in relation to consideration ofpeculiarities ofdevelopment andfunctioning of the model of the presidential state was launched analytical andfunctionality materials I. V. Protsiuk.On the conceptualization within the political science tradition in connection with the problems of the political regimes, their development in the conditions of conflict of the present, in the face of threats and challenges of a multifaceted nature are included the materials of methodological and theoretical importance M. P. Trebin, I. O. Polishchuk, D. Denisenko, G. M. Kutz, O. A. Fisun, M. A. Polovyi and, in the context of regional- geopolitical dimensions, V. Yu. Karasev. Among the foreign authors on the subject area of the study, we note the conceptual vision of the combination ofeconomic cycles and political and legal processes of the present Daniela Campello, the development of the author of the theory of «path dependence effect» by J. Mahoney and researchers of modifications of the development of neo-patrimonialism in Latin America and Karsten Bachle. Focused on the trends and innovations of the constitutional process in the countries of the region are the scientific orientations of Rogelio Nu'nez and P. I. Kostogryzov. A broad analytical and research base on the transformation of political regimes in Latina America and the Caribbean and the peculiarities ofpolitical processes in individual countries are provided by the works of B. Geddes, G. O'Donnell, L. Diamond, D. Ziblatta, S. Levitsky, Z. V. Ivanovsky, T. A. Vorotnikova, P. P. Yakovlev, D. V. Morozov, and others.Paper objective. The purpose of this work is to find out the broad contexts of the relationship between economic and political and legal processes in Latin America and the Carribien countries with attention to the peculiarities of the rule of law formation. The tasks are to analyze a set of approaches to finding the causes of the difficulties of socio-political and institutional-legal development in the region with the involvement of interdisciplinary scientific experience and to identify some essential features of meaning- forming and socio-constructing phenomena in the contextual contours.Paper main body. One of the options for designating the specificity of the current state of affairs is framed in the concept of the so-called «curse of volatility» - the dependence of local, mainly commodity and export-oriented with low internal economy savings from cycles, fluctuations of the world economy. This dependence is a definite structural factor and has been forming for a long time. Also, macroeconomic indicators within the framework of a certain political economy methodology in the projection for the sum ofpolitical and legal events allow us to see the spread of ideology, whether left or right, the rise of populism, the tendency for further democratization of the way of life or vice versa from democracy, the relative calm of the political process or the turbulence ofpolitical events are, after all, tied to basic economic indicators, and often more or less relevant to us and corresponding to figures about the level of safety of life. The trajectory of development was laid down by some decisions at a time of critical juncture when privatization created the basis of the local economy as a structural part of the world capitalist system with its dynamics of development that facilitated the formatting and reproduction of the reactive sequences caused by different types of liberal reforms.Conclusions of the research. The particular attention in Latin America and the Caribbean countries on the expectations and responsibilities of building the future is focused on the development of Constitutional law as a leading sphere in the system of national law. Hence the numerous constitutional changes in the countries of the region, the constitutional reforms of different grades, which are intensively continued today. The lifestyle liberalization, resolving key property issues, attempts at democratization in Latin America and the Carribien countries took place in different ways, but after the foundations ofpublic law that were borrowed in outline in the USA. Between enshrined key provisions in the Constitutions and the coexistence of essentially diverse mass consciousnesses and aspirations on different 'floors' of the society, has raised multi-dimensional discord, that is emerging from the institutionalization of the liberal-democratic model of the state, generated in the context of understanding freedom as a key concept. Therefore the aspect ofan all-public agreement on coexistence rules does not appear to be fully realized, which gives rise to a search for a constitutional character. The focus remains on the relationship between multiple interests and ideas about the common good, by means of the formation of the general will in the structure and practice of constitutional-democratic regimes. It is inextricably linked to the transformation of the concepts of representation and citizenship. Democratic legitimation is correlated with ideas about the rule of the masses, the will of the majority in the living creation of the norms of life, and with the accompanying active and continuous participation in the political process of large groups, sectors of the population. The constitutional creativity of the countries of the region shows the element of an assertion of messianism, the designation of the special role of the country, its leader, ideology, the Constitution in the processes of historical implementation at the level of regional or the world. This moment of national pride for the country and its contribution to the cultural and civilizational space of history is realized in experimental projects of various expressions. ; В статье предпринята попытка выяснения природы связи циклов экономического развития и особенностей развития политико-правовых процессов в странах Латинской Америки и Карибского бассейна. Подчеркнута важность последствий процессов либеральных реформ в сложившейся традиции сочетания качества социальной жизни и конституционного творчества. Отмечено - общая векторность, динамика, связаны с диссонансами относительно местных акцентов понимания демократии в контексте доминирования представлений о равенстве и справедливости с той содержательной центрированностью понятия свободы, что вслед за либерально-конституционным пониманием демократии была отражена в формально-правовых конструкциях конституционного значения, еще изначально в основе своей заимствованных в США. Пространство стыков взаимодействия интересов значимых для региона элит и надежд большинства местных жителей актуализируют попытки переформатировать положения Конституции в поисках основания для современной модели общественного договора, дополненные поиском форм реализации мессианских назначений в истории. ; Анотація. В статті здійснена спроба з'ясування природи зв'язку циклів економічного розвитку та особливостей розвитку політико-правових процесів в країнах Латинської Америки та Карибського Басейну. Підкреслено значущість наслідків процесів ліберальних реформ в сформованій традиції сполучення якості соціального життя й конституційної творчості. Наголошено - загальна векторність, динамі­ка змін, пов'язані з дисонансами відносно місцевих акцентів розуміння демократії (як демократії участі) в контексті домінування уявлень про рівність і справедливість з тією змістовною центрованістю поняття свободи, що слідом за ліберально- конституційним розумінням демократії було відтворено в формально-правових конструкціях конституційного значення, що в своїй основі ще початково були запозиченими в США. Простір стиків сполучення інтересів значимих для регіону еліт і сподівань більшості місцевих жителів актуалізують намагання переформатувати положення Конституції в пошуках підвалин для сучасної моделі суспільного договору, що є доповненими пошуком форм реалізації месіанських призначень в історії.

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected all countries of the world, and its consequences are tangible not only today, but will have effect in the long run. The article is devoted to the impact of the coronavirus crisis on the energy market in Latin America. The study identifies the main threats, outlines potential protection mechanisms, and attempts to predict the further development of the situation in the energy sector in times of crisis. Mexico has begun to actively implement a number of protection mechanisms (hedging, redirection of state trust funds, etc.) to counter the effects of the coronavirus crisis. Argentina`s police is similar, as the country has introduced a decree obliging oil companies to support production and investment at the level of 2019 in order to mitigate the impact of the crisis. Venezuela, as a country the most dependent on oil exports, is facing an acute shortage threat. They allowed to sell oil to private companies, which in turn put an end to the state's monopoly on the energy market. The oil price collapse has highlighted serious problems in the Colombian economy, which could last for several years. Continuation or reintroduction of quarantine measures does not give hope for a rapid recovery in demand for oil and petroleum products, which threatens to reduce investment in the region. Therefore, governments are forced to seek financial support from international organizations or other states. It is noted that the pandemic has dealt a severe blow to countries that have lost potential opportunities and failed to reach a better economic level. In addition, difficulties have been encountered in implementation of large-scale projects in the field of oil production. The authors conclude that most countries of the region will have to adapt to new realities and, as a result, make structural changes in national economies. As the COVID-19 pandemic is unlikely to end in the near future and compliance with quarantine measures remains relevant, it will be necessary to look for other ways of economic development that are not related to energy exports. ; Пандемія COVID-19 вплинула на усі країни світу, а її наслідки дають про себе знати не лише сьогодні, а й будуть помітними у довгостроковій перспективі. Стаття присвячена розгляду впливу коронавірусної кризи на ринок енергоносіїв країн Латинської Америки. В дослідженні визначено основні загрози, окреслено потенційні механізми захисту, зроблено спробу спрогнозувати подальший розвиток ситуації в енергетичній галузі в умовах кризи. Мексика, аби протистояти наслідкам кризи, спричиненої коронавірусною хворобою, почала активно впроваджувати низку захисних механізмів (геджування, перенаправлення коштів державних трастових фондів тощо). Подібною є політика Аргентини, яка задля пом'якшення впливу кризи, запровадила указ про зобов'язання нафтовидобувних компаній підтримувати видобуток та інвестиції на рівні 2019 р. Найбільш залежна від експорту нафти держава, Венесуела, опинилася перед загрозою гострого дефіциту. Паливо дозволили продавати приватним компаніям, що, своєю чергою, поставило крапку в державній монополії на енергоринку. Обвал цін на нафту засвідчив серйозні проблеми в економіці Колумбії, які можуть тривати кілька років. Продовження чи повторне запровадження карантинних заходів не дарує надії на швидке відновлення попиту на нафту та нафтопродукти, що є загрозою зниженню інвестицій в регіон. Тому уряди держав змушені шукати фінансової підтримки у міжнародних організацій чи інших держав. Відзначено, що пандемія нанесла серйозний удар по країнах, що втратили потенційні можливості й не змогли вийти на кращий економічний рівень. Крім того, виникли складнощі в успішній реалізації великих проєктів у сфері нафтовидобутку. Автори дійшли висновку, що більшості країн регіону доведеться пристосовуватись до нових реалій і як наслідок проводити структурні зміни у національних економіках. Оскільки закінчення пандемії COVID-19 у найближчий час є малоймовірним, а дотримання карантинних заходів все ж залишатиметься актуальним, то необхідно буде відшуковувати інші шляхи економічного розвитку, що не пов'язані із експортом енергоносіїв.

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected all countries of the world, and its consequences are tangible not only today, but will have effect in the long run. The article is devoted to the impact of the coronavirus crisis on the energy market in Latin America. The study identifies the main threats, outlines potential protection mechanisms, and attempts to predict the further development of the situation in the energy sector in times of crisis. Mexico has begun to actively implement a number of protection mechanisms (hedging, redirection of state trust funds, etc.) to counter the effects of the coronavirus crisis. Argentina`s police is similar, as the country has introduced a decree obliging oil companies to support production and investment at the level of 2019 in order to mitigate the impact of the crisis. Venezuela, as a country the most dependent on oil exports, is facing an acute shortage threat. They allowed to sell oil to private companies, which in turn put an end to the state's monopoly on the energy market. The oil price collapse has highlighted serious problems in the Colombian economy, which could last for several years. Continuation or reintroduction of quarantine measures does not give hope for a rapid recovery in demand for oil and petroleum products, which threatens to reduce investment in the region. Therefore, governments are forced to seek financial support from international organizations or other states. It is noted that the pandemic has dealt a severe blow to countries that have lost potential opportunities and failed to reach a better economic level. In addition, difficulties have been encountered in implementation of large-scale projects in the field of oil production. The authors conclude that most countries of the region will have to adapt to new realities and, as a result, make structural changes in national economies. As the COVID-19 pandemic is unlikely to end in the near future and compliance with quarantine measures remains relevant, it will be necessary to look for other ways of economic development that are not related to energy exports. ; Пандемія COVID-19 вплинула на усі країни світу, а її наслідки дають про себе знати не лише сьогодні, а й будуть помітними у довгостроковій перспективі. Стаття присвячена розгляду впливу коронавірусної кризи на ринок енергоносіїв країн Латинської Америки. В дослідженні визначено основні загрози, окреслено потенційні механізми захисту, зроблено спробу спрогнозувати подальший розвиток ситуації в енергетичній галузі в умовах кризи. Мексика, аби протистояти наслідкам кризи, спричиненої коронавірусною хворобою, почала активно впроваджувати низку захисних механізмів (геджування, перенаправлення коштів державних трастових фондів тощо). Подібною є політика Аргентини, яка задля пом'якшення впливу кризи, запровадила указ про зобов'язання нафтовидобувних компаній підтримувати видобуток та інвестиції на рівні 2019 р. Найбільш залежна від експорту нафти держава, Венесуела, опинилася перед загрозою гострого дефіциту. Паливо дозволили продавати приватним компаніям, що, своєю чергою, поставило крапку в державній монополії на енергоринку. Обвал цін на нафту засвідчив серйозні проблеми в економіці Колумбії, які можуть тривати кілька років. Продовження чи повторне запровадження карантинних заходів не дарує надії на швидке відновлення попиту на нафту та нафтопродукти, що є загрозою зниженню інвестицій в регіон. Тому уряди держав змушені шукати фінансової підтримки у міжнародних організацій чи інших держав. Відзначено, що пандемія нанесла серйозний удар по країнах, що втратили потенційні можливості й не змогли вийти на кращий економічний рівень. Крім того, виникли складнощі в успішній реалізації великих проєктів у сфері нафтовидобутку. Автори дійшли висновку, що більшості країн регіону доведеться пристосовуватись до нових реалій і як наслідок проводити структурні зміни у національних економіках. Оскільки закінчення пандемії COVID-19 у найближчий час є малоймовірним, а дотримання карантинних заходів все ж залишатиметься актуальним, то необхідно буде відшуковувати інші шляхи економічного розвитку, що не пов'язані із експортом енергоносіїв.

Problem setting. Latin America and the Caribbean traditionally referred to as a large and ambiguous region in an out-side territorial scientific environment. A whole stratum of problems of identities, peculiarities of self-awareness, civilization affiliations of messianic 'appointments ' in the history of the region and the world, the development of ways of cultural and historical development corresponding to them, the affirmation of the tendencies of state formation is in a scientific researcher focus. Among the many aspects that conceptualize the demandfor research in the region and its implementation, we would like to highlight the following: 1) Latin America and the Caribbean are, to some extent, «a territory of historically significant validation of modern trends» in their speculative lengthening, the field ofdeveloping new ones political and economic novations, including regarding various projections of the correlation of socio-political practices, institutional design and legal technologies, derived from the understanding of nature and the purpose of law. 2) The region 'provides ' a wide range of heterogeneous materials for analytical work, both concatenate-linear in nature, and combining poly-meaningful multidimensionality, multifaceted coexistence of values generated by contemporary media, the glare of meanings, signs, intentions of conscious transformations, random «breakthroughs» of network travel followers. In the discovery literature thatfollows only the analysis of statistical indicators, it is often noted that Latin America and the Caribbean is a region of polarization (the territory of the intersection of different values, gaps traditions, lifestyles, indicators of the difference between the needful and the wealth, the level of concentration of income, manifestations of crime, corruption, etc.). 3) Considering the full amount of opportunities and perspectives available, Latin America in general, in some associative formulation, is clearly «boxing at levels below its weight and its impact on international canvases», that is, there are some reasons for internal and external character that significantly reduce the region's role in the world, affecting accents of processes of political, legal and economic worsen the work «for the common good», underestimate «the bar of tasks and results» do not meet the expectations of the significance of the region.Recent research and publications analysis. The paper uses an interdisciplinary approach involving the research of representatives of various sciences. Concerning the approach to certain aspects of the constitutional process in the countries of Latin America and the Carribien was used the researches of Ukrainian authors Yu. M. Todyka, V. P. Kolisnyk, Yu. G. Barabash, M. P. Orzikh, T. M. Slinko, A. G. Kushnirenko, pertaining to in relation to consideration ofpeculiarities ofdevelopment andfunctioning of the model of the presidential state was launched analytical andfunctionality materials I. V. Protsiuk.On the conceptualization within the political science tradition in connection with the problems of the political regimes, their development in the conditions of conflict of the present, in the face of threats and challenges of a multifaceted nature are included the materials of methodological and theoretical importance M. P. Trebin, I. O. Polishchuk, D. Denisenko, G. M. Kutz, O. A. Fisun, M. A. Polovyi and, in the context of regional- geopolitical dimensions, V. Yu. Karasev. Among the foreign authors on the subject area of the study, we note the conceptual vision of the combination ofeconomic cycles and political and legal processes of the present Daniela Campello, the development of the author of the theory of «path dependence effect» by J. Mahoney and researchers of modifications of the development of neo-patrimonialism in Latin America and Karsten Bachle. Focused on the trends and innovations of the constitutional process in the countries of the region are the scientific orientations of Rogelio Nu'nez and P. I. Kostogryzov. A broad analytical and research base on the transformation of political regimes in Latina America and the Caribbean and the peculiarities ofpolitical processes in individual countries are provided by the works of B. Geddes, G. O'Donnell, L. Diamond, D. Ziblatta, S. Levitsky, Z. V. Ivanovsky, T. A. Vorotnikova, P. P. Yakovlev, D. V. Morozov, and others.Paper objective. The purpose of this work is to find out the broad contexts of the relationship between economic and political and legal processes in Latin America and the Carribien countries with attention to the peculiarities of the rule of law formation. The tasks are to analyze a set of approaches to finding the causes of the difficulties of socio-political and institutional-legal development in the region with the involvement of interdisciplinary scientific experience and to identify some essential features of meaning- forming and socio-constructing phenomena in the contextual contours.Paper main body. One of the options for designating the specificity of the current state of affairs is framed in the concept of the so-called «curse of volatility» - the dependence of local, mainly commodity and export-oriented with low internal economy savings from cycles, fluctuations of the world economy. This dependence is a definite structural factor and has been forming for a long time. Also, macroeconomic indicators within the framework of a certain political economy methodology in the projection for the sum ofpolitical and legal events allow us to see the spread of ideology, whether left or right, the rise of populism, the tendency for further democratization of the way of life or vice versa from democracy, the relative calm of the political process or the turbulence ofpolitical events are, after all, tied to basic economic indicators, and often more or less relevant to us and corresponding to figures about the level of safety of life. The trajectory of development was laid down by some decisions at a time of critical juncture when privatization created the basis of the local economy as a structural part of the world capitalist system with its dynamics of development that facilitated the formatting and reproduction of the reactive sequences caused by different types of liberal reforms.Conclusions of the research. The particular attention in Latin America and the Caribbean countries on the expectations and responsibilities of building the future is focused on the development of Constitutional law as a leading sphere in the system of national law. Hence the numerous constitutional changes in the countries of the region, the constitutional reforms of different grades, which are intensively continued today. The lifestyle liberalization, resolving key property issues, attempts at democratization in Latin America and the Carribien countries took place in different ways, but after the foundations ofpublic law that were borrowed in outline in the USA. Between enshrined key provisions in the Constitutions and the coexistence of essentially diverse mass consciousnesses and aspirations on different 'floors' of the society, has raised multi-dimensional discord, that is emerging from the institutionalization of the liberal-democratic model of the state, generated in the context of understanding freedom as a key concept. Therefore the aspect ofan all-public agreement on coexistence rules does not appear to be fully realized, which gives rise to a search for a constitutional character. The focus remains on the relationship between multiple interests and ideas about the common good, by means of the formation of the general will in the structure and practice of constitutional-democratic regimes. It is inextricably linked to the transformation of the concepts of representation and citizenship. Democratic legitimation is correlated with ideas about the rule of the masses, the will of the majority in the living creation of the norms of life, and with the accompanying active and continuous participation in the political process of large groups, sectors of the population. The constitutional creativity of the countries of the region shows the element of an assertion of messianism, the designation of the special role of the country, its leader, ideology, the Constitution in the processes of historical implementation at the level of regional or the world. This moment of national pride for the country and its contribution to the cultural and civilizational space of history is realized in experimental projects of various expressions. ; В статье предпринята попытка выяснения природы связи циклов экономического развития и особенностей развития политико-правовых процессов в странах Латинской Америки и Карибского бассейна. Подчеркнута важность последствий процессов либеральных реформ в сложившейся традиции сочетания качества социальной жизни и конституционного творчества. Отмечено - общая векторность, динамика, связаны с диссонансами относительно местных акцентов понимания демократии в контексте доминирования представлений о равенстве и справедливости с той содержательной центрированностью понятия свободы, что вслед за либерально-конституционным пониманием демократии была отражена в формально-правовых конструкциях конституционного значения, еще изначально в основе своей заимствованных в США. Пространство стыков взаимодействия интересов значимых для региона элит и надежд большинства местных жителей актуализируют попытки переформатировать положения Конституции в поисках основания для современной модели общественного договора, дополненные поиском форм реализации мессианских назначений в истории. ; Анотація. В статті здійснена спроба з'ясування природи зв'язку циклів економічного розвитку та особливостей розвитку політико-правових процесів в країнах Латинської Америки та Карибського Басейну. Підкреслено значущість наслідків процесів ліберальних реформ в сформованій традиції сполучення якості соціального життя й конституційної творчості. Наголошено - загальна векторність, динамі­ка змін, пов'язані з дисонансами відносно місцевих акцентів розуміння демократії (як демократії участі) в контексті домінування уявлень про рівність і справедливість з тією змістовною центрованістю поняття свободи, що слідом за ліберально- конституційним розумінням демократії було відтворено в формально-правових конструкціях конституційного значення, що в своїй основі ще початково були запозиченими в США. Простір стиків сполучення інтересів значимих для регіону еліт і сподівань більшості місцевих жителів актуалізують намагання переформатувати положення Конституції в пошуках підвалин для сучасної моделі суспільного договору, що є доповненими пошуком форм реалізації месіанських призначень в історії.

In this paper, an attempt is made to raise the question of the nature of modernity as such, with an understanding of the key development trends and the characteristics of political processes at the global and regional levels with a description of future risk issues. In the framework of the research vector, the insufficient study of the issue of the qualitative content of geopolitics was emphasized in connection with the completion of the US approval of neo-liberal hegemony and the corresponding reformatting of the world with the beginning of the introduction by the United States of America of a political and economic strategy for national development. It has been recorded that in the context of the implementation by other actors of world politics of the intentions of a new contouring of a multipolar world, a range of issues is being updated regarding the formatting of political and economic processes at the national-state level and awareness of the risks of the future, the search for ways to minimize them. Thus, the article analyzes the power of resource aspects of geopolitics, offers a vision of the nature and content of prospects, identifies risk zones in the context of the implementation of today's strategies in general terms and, in part, in relation to the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. It is concluded that under the conditions of "fluid modernity" and the establishment of a multi-polarity of the world with centering of the poles based on resource understanding of modern infrastructural power, the nature of the transformation of the "poles of the world" is fleeting, that is, the process of struggle to expand zones of influence, "territories of responsibility" is being updated, the risks of conflict are growing, with a separate problem of the forms and extent of social conflict. In the Latin American context, in particular, the significance of the very definition, production and distribution of risks, awareness of its "level by conditional score of the scale of values" It is emphasized that the prospects for formatting the world and regional changes largely depend on the development of processes in the USA, the leader of the democratic world and world economy. ; Стаття присвячена дослідженню проблеми щастя та політики щастя в соціальних державах. Метою роботи є визначення ролі соціальної держави в формуванні суспільства щасливих людей та шляхів реалізації нею «політики щастя». Наукова новизна дослідження у визначенні можливості здійснювати політику щастя в умовах конкурентного суспільства. У дослідженні показано зростання інтересу до проблеми щастя як науковців, так і політиків. Відмічається міждисциплінарний підхід до вивчення проблеми щастя. Зазначено, що уявлення про шляхи формування соціально справедливого суспільства змінюються. Приділяється увага дискусії щодо максималізації щастя як мети уряду. Визначається суть соціальної держави, яка найбільш послідовно реалізує завдання створення гідних людини умов існування. Доведено значення свободи в забезпеченні щастя людини та необхідність надання державою соціального захисту від негативного впливу на суспільство економічної свободи, ринку. Рівень захисту громадян від ринку (рівень декоммодифікації) розглядається як один з критеріїв різних моделей соціальної держави. Аналізуються та оцінюються різні стратегії найкращого задоволення потреб суспільства та їх практичне застосування в різних країнах: традиційно ліва (підтримує державну гарантію задоволення людських потреб); традиційно права (задоволення потреб залежить від ринку); стратегії, що поєднують ознаки цих двох стратегій («гібридні»). Відмінність між країнами, які використовують «гібридні» стратегії, в тому чого більше – «ринку» чи «регулювання ринку задля задоволення потреб населення». Як приклад розглядається використання «гібридних» стратегій в Соціалістичній Федеративній Республіці Югославія, де існувала «економіка ринкового соціалізму». Визначається сумісність лібертаріанських ідей з проголошеною в Україні політикою щастя. Зроблено висновок, що реалізація прагнень сформувати суспільство щасливих людей в Україні залежить від побудови соціальної держави.

У статті систематизовано напрями діяльності канадських і американських асоціацій, які суттєво впливають на розвиток освіти дорослих. Виявлено, що «парасольковою» організацією в США є Американ­ська асоціація освіти дорослих і неперервної освіти, а в Канаді – Канадська асоціація з досліджень освіти дорослих, які беруть активну участь у розробці законодавчого, організаційного, змістового забезпечення системи освіти дорослих; суттєвий вплив на розвиток освіти дорослих у США і Канаді мають міжнародні організації, зокрема ЮНЕСКО та Міжнародна рада з освіти дорослих, які визначають тенденції та пріоритети розвитку, слугують орієнтиром у розробці національних стратегій розвитку освіти дорослих. ; The article deals with Canadian and American associations that influence the development of adult education in the United States of America and Canada. It is found out that the Association of Adult Education works in the United States of America and Canada. The United States of America has the full spectrum of associations that influence positively on adult education development. Comparative analysis provides us an opportunity to state the following. American Association of Adult Education, American Librarian Association, American Community of Study and Development, National Scientific Fund, National Educational Association, American Association of Adult Education, Adult Education Fund, Center of Liberal Adult Education, Association of Pensioners, National Association of Folk and Continuing Education influence considerably on adult education development in the United States of America. Association of Adult Education of Canada, Canadian Association for University and Continuing Education, Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education, the International Council for Adult Education, National Film Board, Canadian Association of Directors of Extension University Education and Summer Schools provide adult education development in Canada.It was proved that "umbrella" organization in the USA is American Association of Adult and Continuous Education, and in Canada – Canadian Association for Adult Education Research, which take an active part in the development of legislative, organizational, financial provision of adult education system.It is shown that international organizations, in particular, UNESCO and the International Council on Adult Education, have a great influence on adult education development in the USA and Canada. These organizations emphasize the importance of adult education quality and the necessity to conduct international research in this field, professional training, and constant improvement of qualification of teachers of adults, monitoring and evaluation of educational results, determine trends and priorities of development, serve as an indicator in developing national strategies of adult education development.

У розвідці здійснено спробу окреслення основних напрямів реалізації приватної і громадської ініціативи в галузі вищої освіти країн Європи та Америки: фундування та підтримка недержавних вищих шкіл, організація та здійснення заходів, що сприяли популяризації та масовізації вищої освіти. Приділено увагу особливостям розповсюдження руху за демократизацію вищої освіти, втілення ідеї «розширення університету» – від Англії та США до інших європейських країн: ініціювання та читання публічних лекцій, створення повноцінних народних університетів, закладів інших типів. Доведено визначальну роль приватної та громадської ініціативи в розвитку вищої школи у вказаних просторових межах. Виокремлено специфіку розбудови недержавної вищої школи на території США та європейських країн на сучасному етапі. ; The article attempts to determine the main directions of the implementation of private and public initiatives in the field of higher education in Europe and America, which include: foundations and support of non-state universities, the organization and implementation of activities that promote the popularization and massization of higher education. The history of the formation of higher schools in the USA is shown – from the opening of Harvard College to the development of a network of higher education institutions. Initiatives that were crowned with success were highlighted (both from opening new institutions, and to carrying out further reforms). Attention is paid to the peculiarities of the expansion of the movement towards the democratization of higher education "University Expansion" in the second half of the 19th century, starting with England and the USA in other European countries. These are defined as the initiation and reading of public lectures, the creation of full-fledged public universities. The significance of the professors' heritage in the dissemination of this process is considered. The decisive role of private and public initiative in the development of higher education in the specified spatial limits is proved. The specifics of the development of non-governmental higher education in the United States (where since the beginning of its foundation higher education existed mainly as non-public) and European countries (where private and public initiative was aimed primarily to supporting public higher education and acted as its complement) are highlighted. The necessity of taking into account productive foreign experience in reforming the domestic education system, namely the use of alternative sources of financing, social partnership of higher educational institutions and business structures, and involving the public in the management of the industry, is argued.