Democratic state-legal regime: Twenty-First Century threats

Nazar Rudyi; Volodymyr Makarchuk; Lubov Zamorska; Ivanna Zdrenyk; Iryna Prodan

doi:10.34069/AI/2021.44.08.28

Nazar Rudyi Lviv State University of Internal Affairs, Lviv, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7338-4867
Volodymyr Makarchuk Lviv Polytechnic National University, Lviv, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5441-0468
Lubov Zamorska Yurii Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, Chernivtsi, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9723-2219
Ivanna Zdrenyk Lviv State University of Internal Affairs, Lviv, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8645-0701
Iryna Prodan Yurii Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, Chernivtsi, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6435-6434

DOI: https://doi.org/10.34069/AI/2021.44.08.28

Keywords: democratic regime, digital dictatorship, form of state-legal regime, hybrid war, illiberal democracy, liberal-democratic regime, rule of law, state, world order.

Abstract

The article deals with the democratic state-legal regime in the light of the twenty-first century threats. It is noted that the presence of formal features of a democratic regime does not always ensure the functioning of such mechanisms and institutions of democracy as the division of power, freedom of speech and assembly, fair elections and others.

The main internal and external destructive elements influencing both settled and developing liberal-democratic regimes are determined. Emphasis is placed on the destructive activities of the Russian Federation in destroying and discrediting the basic institutions of liberal democracies and popularizing the China model of an undemocratic state-legal regime. The influence of scientific and technological progress, political, social, economic, environmental and military factors on the transformation of liberal-democratic regimes and the world global order is revealed. The danger (for the whole liberal-democratic world in general and Ukraine in particular) of the use of such a phenomenon as "hybrid war" by the Russian Federation in the context of the spread of the fascist concept of "Russian world" is pointed out.

It is proved that there is the need to preserve a liberal-democratic state-legal regime, as the most successful of all regimes offered to humanity, for future generations.

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Author Biographies

Nazar Rudyi, Lviv State University of Internal Affairs, Lviv, Ukraine.

PhD, Associate Professor, Professor at the Department of Theory of Law, Constitutional and Private Law, Lviv State University of Internal Affairs, Lviv, Ukraine.

Volodymyr Makarchuk, Lviv Polytechnic National University, Lviv, Ukraine.

Doctor of Law, Professor, Professor of the Department of Theory and Philosophy of Law, Constitutional and International Law, Institute of Jurisprudence, Psychology and Innovative Education of Lviv Polytechnic National University, Lviv, Ukraine.

Lubov Zamorska, Yurii Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, Chernivtsi, Ukraine.

Doctor of Law, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of Theory of Law and Human Rights, Yurii Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, Chernivtsi, Ukraine.

Ivanna Zdrenyk, Lviv State University of Internal Affairs, Lviv, Ukraine.

PhD, Associate Professor at the Department of Theory of Law, Constitutional and Private Law, Lviv State University of Internal Affairs, Lviv, Ukraine.

Iryna Prodan, Yurii Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, Chernivtsi, Ukraine.

Postgraduate of the Department of Theory of Law and Human Rights, Yurii Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, Chernivtsi, Ukraine.

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