The first international scientific conference for students and postgraduates “Political Science Development: European Practice and National Perspectives” was held on March 3rd, 2011 at the Department of History, Political Science and International Relations of Yuriy Fedkovich Chernivtsi National University. One of the conference organizers was the Research Institute of European Integration and Regional Studies.
Participants discussed the main directions of modern Political Science researches in Europe, made a comprehensive systematization of its achievements, outlined the main prospects of Political Science development and improvement of communication between young scientists around Political Studies in Ukraine. Into the focus of the discussion also got the problems of evolution of methodological paradigms in modern Political Science, peculiarities of political institutions and processes in modern conceptual dimension, actual problems of ethno-political development and management of ethno-political processes, the specificity of formation and development of regional political studies in Ukraine.