In this Issue

In the context of confrontation and military conflict, political transformations occurring in various spheres of public life, processes reshaping these spheres in most Eastern Partnership countries and elsewhere, are taking shape within a global restructuring of global society. These transformations are impossible without the active intervention of the state, local governments, and other actors within the political system, and therefore without the formation of a specific set of means, methods, and new instruments for political governance in developed and underdeveloped societies. Contemporary social realities require a thorough understanding of the resilience of political development in the context of transitivity, which prompts an examination of the existing dynamic imbalance of political exchanges and the asymmetry of political relations in communicative discourse through the prism of asymmetry and symmetry, stability, and sustainability. New demands for changes in the quality of public administration highlight the challenges of studying the nature of interactions between government structures, civil society organizations, the media, and communications. Sustainable political development and the increased social effectiveness of governing institutions necessitate an integrative approach to the legitimization of political change, allowing for the elimination of meaningful sociocultural gaps in the political space. The key characteristics and development trends of the political system in modern global and regional societies reflect the specific nature of transformation processes, representing a complex set of qualitative changes in the structure, functioning, and interactions of the political system with the geopolitical and geoeconomic environment. Political institutions and dominant value orientations simultaneously act as both a condition of existence and a result of functioning in relation to each other. During the process of political transformation, global and regional societies have encountered a number of problems characteristic of countries in transition (high social costs of reform, oligarchic ownership, widespread corruption, and instability of democratic institutions). The transformation of the political systems of the Eastern Partnership countries took place in challenging social and cultural conditions, as traditional components of the value system, established types of political consciousness, and dominant strategies of political behavior to some extent hindered the adoption of democratic norms and the entrenchment of democratic institutions. Therefore, democratic transformations in many countries have been accompanied by a delegitimization of political innovations based on values.