Чи була стратегія національної безпеки Західноукраїнської Народної Республіки (Західної Области УНР)?

Abstract

Despite its historical and political short duration, the Western Ukrainian statehood of 1918–1923 had a certain potential, which can be outlined in two ways: formal force and actual powerlessness. Therefore, modeling the potential of West-Ukrainian People’s Republic (ЗУНР, ZUNR) – Western Part of the Ukrainian People’s Republic (ЗОУНР, ZOUNR) based on modern theories and proposals of politics and geopoliticians, is an important factor in studying all the positives and negatives of the studied ethnopolitical sphere, because they show its security and geostrategic components. The article concludes that the study of the potential of Western Ukrainian statehood in 1918–1923 shows the scientific and methodological complexity of the possibilities of designing a national security strategy for the West-Ukrainian People’s Republic.