Два підходи до української проблеми у контексті міжцивілізаційних взаємин

Abstract

The author compares the conceptual approaches of two known western scientists of XX cent.:British historian Arnold J. Toynbee and American politholog Samuel F. Gantington- to Ukrainian problem in a context of the development of intercivilizational relations, first of all the relations between western and orthodox civilizations. The author points to certain eligibility of the approaches of Toynbee and Gantington, but at the same time he notices, that Toynbee understood much better Ukrainian problem and more optimistically evaluated perspectives of Ukraine.