Guest Editor's Preface

• Author: Denys Svyrydenko
• Pages: 4-5

Ukrainian Policymaker, Volume 6, 2020

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Guest Editor’s Preface

Ukrainian Policymaker journal is a platform for international academic discussion in the

eld of political research in Ukraine for more than six years. In 2014, it was established in the

form of an analytical electronic journal. The journal passed the series of development steps.

Since 2018, it represents the results of researches twice a year as a paper and online journal.

Each of the journal issues is a result of the work of an international editorial board, represented

by Ukraine, Poland, the USA, Japan, China, and several other countries.

The mission and goals of the journal in the process of the journal development allowed it to

attract well-known researchers from Central and Eastern Europe, as well as countries such as

Israel, China, Greece, etc. Staying commited to declared mission, the journal tried to present the

studies that make a signicant contribution to the development of urgent problems facing Ukraine

on its pages. The editorial board traditionally referred to such issues as political and institutional

modernization processes in Ukraine, transit society issues, national security challenges in hybrid

war conditions, etc. The rst half of 2020 involved the pandemic of the coronavirus COVID-19

to the rank of urgent problems for all the national states, including Ukraine. This problem has

catalyzed a previously less relevant research discourse, the purpose of which is to search for

eective political and managerial tools to prevent epidemics, overcome them, and ensure post-

epidemic activities.

The sixth issue of Ukrainian Policymaker journal made it possible to present some studies

that summarize the experience of other countries in countering the pandemic coronavirus due

to the thematic nature of the issue. For example, this practice was already successfully used by

the journal when studies by Israeli scholars appeared on its pages, presenting successful cases of

discovering the possibilities of higher education in conicted society. It is dicult to dispute the

thesis that the Israeli experience in the modernization of education to implement the principles

of peace-building is heuristic for Ukraine. In this vein, the current issue presents heuristic

cases of medical reform in China, aimed at the active use of traditional Chinese medicine in

public health emergencies. No less compelling is a study on the construction of public health

safety legal system framework from the perspective of the precautionary principle. Also, the

futurological studies analyzing the problems of freedom in the new social architecture of a post-

pandemic society are presented in this issue. The issue also oers legal research, oering an

author’s vision of approaches aimed at the construction of law-based government in the context

of counteraction to COVID-19. No less interesting for Ukrainian and international researchers

may be an article devoted to the analysis of legal instruments to counteract the spread of

false information, in particular, the criminal law regulation of the behavior of fabricating and

deliberately disseminating false information of epidemic.

At the same time, although the central theme of the issue is the COVID-19 pandemic, the issue

contains articles devoted to no less pressing problems of the political life of modern Ukraine.

The editorial board proceeded from the thesis that the epidemic is the most important, but not

exhaustive, fully relevant problems of Ukraine in 2020. In the light of modernization processes

in the eld of pension provision in Ukraine, the journal oers an article with a detailed analysis

of risk management mechanisms in this area. Also, the issue provides a series of philosophical