In the 1990s, Doctor of Economics, Professor D. G. Lukyanenko, in close cooperation with like-minded colleagues, primarily T. M. Tsygankova, O. M. Mozgov, S. I. Prylypko, A. M. Poruchnik, founded the first national scientific and educational school of international economics in Ukraine, within which more than 30 doctors and 150 candidates of economic sciences realize their individual and collective potential. Dynamically developing in line with the priorities of world economic science, integrating the creative search of Ukrainian economists-internationalists, this school has formed its methodology of international economic research, introduced a fundamentally new specialty for domestic higher economic education "International Economics", which is today one of the most prestigious and sought-after by applicants and the labour market.

Over the past 30 years, on the initiative and under the leadership of D. G. Lukyanenko, a number of fundamental research works, dozens of research topics commissioned by state regulatory bodies and businesses, and international grant projects have been carried out; more than 30 monographs have been prepared and published.

The personal creative contribution of the founder of the school, Professor D. G. Lukyanenko, who stood at the origins of international economic research by scientists of sovereign Ukraine, is significant.

In his works of the 1990s, an original author's concept of studying the internationalization of the economy as a structured and staged process was developed. The micro- and macro-levels of internationalization, its internal and external paths, and manifestations were highlighted. The initial, local, integration and global stages of internationalization development were substantiated. On this basis, a holistic author's scientific doctrine was formulated. At this time, D. G. Lukyanenko devotes research to practical problems of international economy, primarily joint ventures, international investment activities, etc. In particular, the scientific search with V. Biloshapka for ways of attracting foreign capital to the young Ukrainian economy, which were urgent at that time, wasfruitful. The “Concept of Investment Fields” was developed and presented at the Presidium of the NAS of Ukraine, which is based on a macroeconomic approach to the choice of directions of foreign investment in the national economy and takes into account the strategic motivations of the investment behaviour of foreign firms.

Later, Professor D. G. Lukyanenko focuses his research interest on integration issues, significantly supplementing the theory of international economic integration by systematizing methodologically disparate knowledge about its essence, forms and types, levels, ways and features of development. D. G. Lukyanenko showed that at the beginning of the third millennium, a tendency of transition of economic integration to intercontinental level is being formed, and predicted, on the one hand, new waves of creation of strategic alliances and mergers of corporations, and on the other hand – absorption by continental integration groups of regional and subregional associations of states. D. G. Lukyanenko revealed the dualistic nature of international economic integration when powerful integration processes develop in interaction with disintegration ones. The conditions and factors of full, partial or extended reintegration, unexplored in economic theory, although it had specific manifestations and considerable practical significance, especially in the context of modern geopolitical and geoeconomic priorities, were determined.

Initially individually, and then in collaboration with Doctor of Economics, Professors V. I. Chuzhykov and G. M. Wozhnyak (Poland), a relatively independent direction was formed in D. G. Lukyanenko’s scientific research – European integration. The conditions for the formation and mega-regional contradictions of the common European economic space and the problems of convergence of economic models of Poland and Ukraine in the European integration context are analyzed in depth. The book “Convergence of Economic Models of Poland and Ukraine”, published in Polish in 2009, was recognized as the best monograph of the country. The prominent Polish economist Professor Grzegorz Kolodko gave a detailed review of the book, emphasizing its value for European comparisons. Appreciation was received from the President of the European Commission, Mr. M. Barroso, the then President of the European Parliament, Jerzy Buzek, and from the administration of the President of Poland. The English-language edition of the monograph.

“Convergence and Divergence in Europe: Polish and Ukrainian Cases” received positive reviews from the President of the European Council, Van Rompuy, and the Head of the EU Delegation to Ukraine Jan Tombinski, who noted that this is a thorough scientific work that has come out at perfect time. Positive reviews also came from several libraries in Japan, Spain, Germany, Poland, and the United Kingdom.

As a scientist and independent expert of the UN European Commission, studying the issue of EU enlargement in the context of Ukraine’s economic interests, D. G. Lukyanenko concluded that in the modern geoeconomic context, unique conditions are being formed for understanding the new quality of European integration, the transition from Ukraine’s policy of European integration expectations to a policy of active European integration actions. Based on the presence of internal (permanent political crisis, strategic failure of leadership, unpreparedness of the elite and uncertainty of society, resource insecurity) and external (geoeconomic uncertainty, weak motivation from the enlarged EU, critical attitude from individual EU countries, blocking from Russia) problems, D. G. Lukyanenko argues that Ukraine needs, on the one hand, pragmatism and realism in setting the goals of the integration policy of bilateral and multilateral cooperation, and on the other hand, an understanding that in a democratic Ukraine, integration cannot be forced, it must be generated and implemented in line with a national idea. The identified priorities can be effectively implemented only by employing adequate economic policy with the productive use of its intellectual resources. According to Professor D. G. Lukyanenko, a scientifically based, ambitious strategy of our state focused on full membership in the EU is becoming relevant. No less important aresocial Euro-optimism and the corresponding social consolidation - political, economic, spiritual.

A relatively independent area of ​​research by Professor D. G. Lukyanenko in the 2000s and subsequent years is the issue of the formation of the Ukrainian stock market in the infrastructure and globalization contexts. Being the editor-in-chief of printed publications of the State (today National) Commission on Securities and Stock Market of Ukraine, a member of professional consulting and public institutions, D. G. Lukyanenko researches and highlights in co-authorship with Professor O. M. Mozgov in editorial articles of the professional journal "Securities Market of Ukraine", the fundamental problems of the stock market, primarily from the point of view of its effective regulation in a globally unstable financial environment.

The most fruitful and recognized among scientists is the search of Professor D. G. Lukyanenko and his colleagues in the study of globalization. Understanding the critical relevance of global transformations of political, economic and social systems of the present time allowed D. G. Lukyanenko, in co-authorship with O. G. Belorus and O. V. Zernetskaya, to conduct some innovative studies in the late 1990s, which in 2001 were awarded the M. V. Ptukhy Prize of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. D. G. Lukyanenko's scientific approaches to globalization as a process that brings civilization to a higher level of development with the systematic internationalization of the conditions and spheres of human life with its division into informational, political, socio-cultural, scientific and technological, environmental and directly economic with such vital components as production, trade, financial and investment and infrastructure, later became generally recognized in Ukraine.

Methodologically significant in the direction of the development of world economic science is the analysis of the genesis of modern economic systems carried out by D. G. Lukyanenko in the format of the knowledge economy: innovative - creative - intellectual economy; information - new - virtual economy; institutional - network - global economy. According to D. G. Lukyanenko, the acceleration of globalization processes, on the one hand, requires new functional forms and mechanisms for harmonizing national economic interests. On the other hand, global thinking should be formed based on entrepreneurial and innovative motivations and security of development, which is made possible under thehumanization of world economic development. At the same time, currently, due to the imperfection of the global economy and the lack of adequate responses to global challenges, there is, according to D. G. Lukyanenko, a phenomenon of global discrediting of traditional factors and standards of economic development.

Focusing on the current trends of economic globalization (global availability of resources and innovations; global nature of factor mobility; global market unification and regulatory harmonization; global corporatization and individualization; cyclical crises and turbulence; global socialization and politicization of economic relations; regional and continental consolidation), D.G. Lukyanenko identified a number of the most significant and most acute contradictions: deepening antagonism between the global expansion of monopolies and the national economic sovereignty of the countries of the world; strengthening global competition in the sphere of production and sale of goods and services; aggravation of antagonism between global capital and the international contingent of employees; development of antagonism between globalization and regionalization of international economic activity; deepening disparity in participation in the global economic system; formation of technoglobalism as an integral component of economic globalization; deepening of the income gap of the working population and strengthening of intra-regional asymmetries of social development of countries.

Having investigated (one of the first in domestic economic science) the problem of anti-globalization, D. G. Lukyanenko emphasized that the following are fundamentally important: methodological identification of anti-globalists as an objective manifestation of the dualistic nature of globalization, identification and assessment of the intellectual component and potential of personification of economic anti-globalism at the level of outstanding features, search for a constructive dialogue of anti-globalists with ideologists, carriers and leaders of economic globalization.

Based on the fact that the development of the economic system is cyclical with a consistent alternation of periods of rise and decline, D. G. Lukyanenko notes that crisis phenomena accompany the entire history of human civilization and manifestthe dualistic nature of development. D. G. Lukyanenko conducts his own systematization of crises, noting that political crises can be military or non-military, types of social crises are technogenic-economic and those caused by a supercritical gap between the “rich” and the “poor”, etc. In a market-unified world economic system, the most noticeable for society are economic crises: on the one hand, industrial and financial (currency, banking, debt), and on the other - cyclical, structural, and systemic. At the same time, if at the national and international levels, the synergy of crisis phenomena has a predominantly functional orientation, then at the global level, according to his estimates, it acquires qualitatively new dimensions in the complex system “man - nature - economy - society - civilization”. That is, a global crisis may have different prerequisites, but it cannot be functionally or geographically determined. Based on the empirical analysis of 22 currency, banking, debt and stock market crises, D. G. Lukyanenko identified their main indicators and outlined the logic of the development of financial crises and the corresponding system of anti-crisis management. At the same time, D. G. Lukyanenko suggests focusing the research interest of Ukrainian scientists on assessments of the level of dependence of our state on global factors of influence, the quality of state and business anti-crisis management. At the same time, Professor D. G. Lukyanenko believes there have been no global crises in recent history,since there have been nogenuinelyglobal challenges, and humanity has managed to provide conditions for more or less safe development. In his opinion, hypothetically, a global crisis will have only two alternative solutions – a qualitative renewal of the world in all system components or world disintegration.

D. G. Lukyanenko, with professors T.V. Kalchenko, T.M. Tsygankova, O.M. Mozgov separately investigated the formation of the global market as a self-reproducing mechanism for balancing global demand and supply. In global competitiveness, D. G. Lukyanenko and O.A. Shvydanenko showed a qualitative transformation of motivational mechanisms and the business environment, and formed an integrative model of the transition from perfect to imperfect and global competition. At the same time, globalization causes a cardinal change in the subjective disposition of the market, fundamental signs and factors of competition, when it is both a source and a stimulator of competitive development and an accelerator of contradictions, conflicts and crises of local and global scales with ignoring national interests, borders and regulators.

Based on the understanding of current globalization as not comprehensive since it does not cover all countries, regions and industries, D. G. Lukyanenko emphasizes that the globalization challenges of the 21st century are manifested in the intensification of social contradictions at almost all levels with the prevalence of relevant leadership ambitions, which is reflected by the author in the model of leadership in the global economic system. The research attention of Professor D. G. Lukyanenko objectively focuses on the phenomenon of information globalism, which, dominating almost all world markets, leads to the fact that its participants operate with virtual assets and liabilities in ever-increasing volumes. At the same time, financial and investment schemes are implemented with the involvement of almost all market actors – individuals, corporations, governments, and international organizations. As a result, the conditions and criteria of international competitiveness are significantly adjusted when leadership in the information and mass media sphere becomes a decisive factor of global leadership. In general, Professor D. G. Lukyanenko defines the problem of global virtualization as critically relevant, which requires impartial research. From a civilizational point of view, it is crucial, in his opinion, to realize that not only “virtual economy”, “virtual politics”, “virtual diplomacy”, and “virtual culture”, but also “virtual education” are emerging in the depths of the Internet.

In a broader civilizational context, D. G. Lukyanenko defines human, primarily intellectual, resources as the basic substance of global civilizational progress. He argues that, in general, in the modern development paradigm, each country, and not only leading countries, should focus on the primaryresource of progress and prosperity – intellectual capital, the producers and carriers of which are universities.

Based on the key role of universities in the knowledge economy, D. G. Lukyanenko identified modern features of their development, namely the predominance of: scientific research over teaching; flexible and innovative programs over classical fundamental ones; virtual (distance) learning over traditional; self-organization of education over its control; corporate and grant funding over state funding. In a series of scientific articles from 2009–2010, Professor D. G. Lukyanenko emphasizes and argues that university activities are characterized not only by internationalization, but also by globalization. Based on the current trend in university development, when traditional universities are transformed into research universities, and some of them into entrepreneurial universities with the capitalization of science, close interaction with business structures, hybridization and continuous renewal of the organizational structure, Professor D. G. Lukyanenko evaluates the positives (financial and strategic autonomy) and possible negatives (discrediting fundamental science) of these processes.

A deep professional understanding of the university subject allowed D. G. Lukyanenko to identify the current problems of scientific activity of Ukrainian universities: internal [(inertia of thinking and behavior in the traditional “educational” paradigm of the university; unresolved problem of diversification of sources of financing of scientific research; locality and “provinciality” of research, limited international image and brand, including due to “linguistic limitations” of scientific products; inability to work with intellectual property tools; unwillingness to transform knowledge into innovative products (methods, algorithms, technologies, models)] and external [lack of a national innovation system (general innovation incentives); imperfect national legal environment regarding scientific and innovative activity; limited demand for managerial innovations (conservative structure of the Ukrainian economy, manual and opportunistic state and corporate management); lack of state, municipal and industry orders to universities for scientific expertise of strategic programs, projects, decisions; official and public rejection of universities as full-fledged scientific institutions].

In a broader civilizational context, it is necessary to search for a new paradigm of global development when the centre of research interest is a person, his physiological, spiritual and social nature, and not an artificial shell with illusory successes and competitive status, divorced from the healthy needs of acreative and safe life. D. G. Lukyanenko emphasizes that a variety of forms and competition do not characterize mass material-consumer motivation, but on the contrary – intercultural unification. Based on the absurd in its essence and modern manifestations of the "chase after the rich" businessmen, corporations, cities, countries, moral and ethical niches of spiritual degradation are opening up that threaten the progressive development of human civilization. It is not even that the global flows of standardized goods and the charms of the “consumer society” unified throughglobal advertising discredit national borders and state regulation. The most threatening is the neglect of national cultures and their reduction to external manifestations and folklore, which undermines the ability to create an independent culture and society.

As the head of the Department of International Management, with his colleagues, Professor D. G. Lukyanenko, in his scientific research, naturally focuses on the formation of its methodology and the features of corporate and public management in the conditions of comprehensive globalization. Investigating quantitative and qualitative trends in modern international business, D. G. Lukyanenko emphasizes that due to international mergers and acquisitions of unprecedented scale in terms of strategic orientation, diversified areas of activity, and interests of top management, transnational corporations that control 70–90% of the world markets for goods, services, and technologies, with the total sales volume of the 200 largest of them exceeding 30% of the world gross domestic product, are growing into global ones. In the progressive post-industrial segment of the world economy, the leadership ambitions of global corporations combined with a dynamic quasi-economic culture generate the latest qualitative structural and organizational shifts. Under these conditions, domestic economic science began to study metacorporations, circular and horizontal corporations, quasi-holdings, virtual corporations, and network corporate structures that adequately reflect the effective connections between elements of the internal and external environment in global conditions. Based on the assessments of Western scientists and analytical centres and his own empirical generalizations, Professor D. G. Lukyanenko substantiates that global corporations dominating the markets of goods, services, capital, technologies, and managerial innovations are becoming the most influential entities of the world economy and, at the same time, its most dynamic structural elements. In terms of mobility, ability to adequately respond to changes in the external competitive environment, and innovative orientation, they obviously outperform bureaucratized not only national but also international organizations and regional supranational entities. The activities of global corporations, which obviously will have no alternative in international business, will largely determine the contours of the future global economy and the philosophy of global management.

A new direction in Professor D. G. Lukyanenko's scientific researchis the study of management's creative component. Together with his followers (Professor E. Panchenko, V. Biloshapka, Associate Professors O. Doroshenko, O. Titova, T. Galakhova), he analyzes in depth not only the general prerequisites for the formation of creative management, but also conducts several original empirical studies, initiates systematic questionnaires to assess the creative potential of Ukrainian management in large and medium-sized businesses, initiates the development of a new master's discipline "Creative Management". The formation of innovative and creative competencies adequate to the global business environment requires, in the opinion of Professor D. G. Lukyanenko, a qualitative transformation of university curricula and courses, which, in turn, becomes possible under the conditions of advanced fundamental research in this direction.

It is clear that in the multifaceted searches of the scientific school of Professor D. G. Lukyanenko, the research interest has constantly focused on the problem of the effective economic development of sovereign Ukraine. In the hotly debated intellectual environment of economists during the "Soviet perestroika" era, PhD in Economics, Associate Professor D. G. Lukyanenko was the direct developer of an alternative concept of economic independence of the Ukrainian SSR to the official projects, which at that time was a bold challenge to the regime and in a certain way contributed to the formation of scientific approaches to Ukrainian sovereignization. In the future, Ukrainian issues will firstly be adequately reflected in almost all of Professor D. G. Lukyanenko’s scientific works and his followers. Secondly, they will become the subject of unique research.

Noting that the formation of Ukraine as a sovereign state occurredduring global transformations, D. G. Lukyanenko notes a certain uniqueness of the conditions of national economic development. However, the overestimation of this phenomenon led to many years of focus mainly on one's problems and inability (or unwillingness) to adequately assess the qualitatively changing external environment. The uncertainty of national interests in the coordinates of modern geoeconomics and geopolitics led to an apparentvacuum, when Ukraine has been faced with a choice for a long time: either to come to terms with its civilizational inferiority and uncompetitiveness and live without post-industrial and innovative claims, or to find the strength for structural and technological renewal of the national economy. In the first case, it is enough to establish effective exploitation of existing natural resources using industrial technologies, improve appropriate management models, ensure the reproduction of labour resources capable of copying foreign technologies, and thus adapt to average world living standards. Today, in Ukraine, export-oriented businesses in the formof large complexcorporations on mineral and raw materials are based on low-tech production, ensuring a certain level of employment and preserving theirmonopoly leadership positions in the national economy. Otherwise, when Ukrainian society perceives the goal of becoming truly competitive with an orientation towards scientific, technological and information and innovative prospects, the question arises: are internal sources and conditions sufficient for this, given that Ukraine is, in fact, in the industrial stage of development? Are we able to overcome negative external, political and competitive influences and adequately respond to the challenges of globalization?

The assessment of Ukraine's economic potential carried out by representatives of the scientific school based on a system of sustainable development indicators according to the World Bank methodology made it possible to make a forecast of its dynamics in the long term (until 2050) by leading sectors of the economy (industry, agriculture, construction, transport and communications, trade, innovation sphere).

The pragmatic determinants of an effective strategy are the transnationalization of the national economy, multi-level regional integration, and productive interaction with world regulatory institutions. The modern economic policy of Ukraine, capable of implementing long-term development priorities in the global environment, should be: nationwide, and not the policy of individual parties and movements; purely national, and not copied from certain models of market transformation and economic development; innovatively oriented, that is, developed taking into account global trends in intellectualization, informatization, and humanization of the economy; decisive and consistent, but at the same time flexible within the framework of a specific economy; decisive and consistent, but at the same time flexible within the framework of a defined economic strategy; oriented towards consistent openness of the national economy taking into account the trends of globalization of economic development and competition.

The key principles for ensuring the implementation of Ukraine's national interests in the process of entering the global socio-economic space have been identified: reasonable sufficiency in satisfying both individual and group social needs; systematicity and subordination in the implementation of the national economic interest, which involve taking into account the interests of all members of society, harmonizing these interests, non-discrimination of the interests of individual social groups and minorities, and the development of all elements of the national economic interest in accordance with modern world standards; universality of participation and at the same time personal responsibility of each citizen for the implementation of the national economic interest of the country, which provides for equal rights and obligations of all segments of the population to engage in socially useful activities regardless of ethnic origin and social status, family and property status, racial and national affiliation, political views and religious beliefs; patriotism and loyalty, when the norm of social behavior of each citizen should be devoted service to his nation and state through conscientious performance of professional and civic duties, adherence to the code of civilized coexistence in economic and social life; professionalism as a measure of the social competitiveness of a nation implies qualified and competent performance by all members of society of production functions, which requires systematic training, improvement of skills, practical skills and formation of respect for labor; legality and the rule of law; publicity and transparency; convergence, which implies coordination and rapprochement of economic interests of different social groups and classes on the basis of the national idea, the effectiveness of the state mechanism for redistribution of the social product, theusing national wealth in the interests of all citizens, preventing deep social asymmetry in society.

Based on the economic research and educational base in Ukraine, a National Strategy for achieving a high, competitive status for the long term should be developed and adopted based on an innovative development model with a priority of Industry 4.0.

The Scientific School of Professor Lukyanenko D.G. is characterized by a critical and creative perception of the latest phenomena, processes, trends and patterns. In this context, it can be stated that domestic economic science was not ready for a systematic understanding of the scientific and technological, informational, economic, socio-cultural and inter-civilizational challenges of unprecedentedly large-scale and dynamically asymmetric globalization, which is, according to D. G. Lukyanenko, a consequence of the conservation of its completely obvious negative features. With the exception of innovative research by individual scientists and teams from several leading universities, it, following Western researchers, states mainly quantitative manifestations of global transformations and economic forecasting based on outdated concepts and models, “exploits” predictions of the past, avoiding paradigmatic searches and generalizations. In a broader context, Professor D. G. Lukyanenko predicts that the determination by developing countries, and not only by leading countries, of the importance of transforming the traditional economy into a knowledge-intensive one can become a turning point in achieving general civilizational progress, ensure socio-economic stability and change the asymmetric model of the global economy of the 21st century.

With almost 25 years of professorial practice, D. G. Lukyanenko understands that it is the new quality of human resources that can ensure the humanization of global development in all its manifestations:

– democratization, ecologization and socialization – on a new intellectual basis. He persistently and reasonably claims that the intellectual mission of universities lies in the formation of such quality. As the first vice-rector for scientific, pedagogical and scientific activities, and since 2017 – the rector of KNEU, Professor D. G. Lukyanenko realizes that scientific and educational university activities in the field of economics and management are the most natural for the development of human, intellectual and social capital. Scientific research, mobile scientific and educational programs and courses adapted in the environment of modern information and communication technologies and business practices should be oriented towards their development.

Based on the phenomenal scientific and technological shifts with the super-dynamic digital transformation of business, networkization of the economy and society, Professor D. G. Lukyanenko orients scientists to research in a methodological format, on the one hand, global trends of networking, intellectualization, individualization and digitalization, and on the other hand, the modern landscape of augmented and mixed reality within the framework of virtualization, as a result of unprecedentedly rapid progress in new materials, mathematics, computer calculations and cryptography.

In the scientific and technological paradigm of the first half of the 21st century, it is important to identify the positives and negatives of the rapid development of digital technologies for the labour market and education. The subject of the study is the theoretical and applied principles of the phenomenon of digitalization of universities that interact with the state, business and network society in the system of open science, education, and innovation.

The expected scientific and practical significance of such research will consist in substantiating and implementing a model for developing a digital university with the digitalization of the management system, educational and scientific activities, the development of human capital, infrastructure, and the creation of a digital ecosystem on the platform of Kyiv National Economic University named after Vadym Hetman.

The organizational contribution of representatives of the D. G. Lukyanenko School to the development of multi-level national economic education through the direct development of Sectoral Standards of Higher Education of Ukraine for educational and professional programs for training bachelors and masters in the specialty "International Economics" in the direction of "Economics and Entrepreneurship" is also significant. An important component of the creative work was the identification and systematization of many non-traditional categories and concepts for domestic economic science that reflect the most significant world economic phenomena and processes, that is, the methodological foundations of modern international economic analysis were laid, which allowed the formation of an adequate toolkit for teaching the latest academic disciplines, primarily international economics, the program of which was developed by representatives of the school under the leadership of D. G. Lukyanenko with further constructive dissemination among universities of Ukraine through textbooks and teaching aids. A significant phenomenon in the scientific support of the training of domestic economists-internationalists at the bachelor's level is the program prepared by professors D. G. Lukyanenko, A. M. Poruchnik, Ya. M. Stolyarchuk and the textbook “International Economics” was published in 2014. Based on many years of experience in teaching the discipline at the Faculty of International Economics and Management, it is distinguished by its fundamental nature (for the first time the discipline is taught as a science), an innovative approach not only to the presentation of the material but also to the structuring of problems, their disclosure and presentation. Taking into account the evolution of methodological postulates and dynamic changes in the consciousness, erudition and worldview of modern students, the textbook examines the problems of international economics in the context of global transformation processes with the clarification of the conditions and factors that fill classical categories and concepts with new meaning, determine modern world economic trends, forming a new paradigm of global governance. Eachthematic section of the textbook has its prognostic assessments regarding scenarios for the development of the international economy in the future. In general, for the bachelor's level, representatives of the school have developed dozens of programs, methodological complexes, regulatory and elective disciplines, and trainings.

To prepare masters in international economics, programs and methods have been developed to provide the entire complex of disciplines under the programs: international business management, international trade, international financial management, international accounting and auditing, European integration, and international competitiveness management. In 2014, for international master's students, a creative team under the leadership of D. G. Lukyanenko and A. M. Poruchnik developed an innovative version of the program of the discipline "Global Economy" as a science. Its goal is to form an understanding by masters of the conditions and factors of formation, mechanisms and tools for the functioning of the global economy, awareness of their own and collective intellectual mission for making adaptive, rational creative management decisions. The main tasks are to study: the nature and patterns of the formation of the global economy; means and potential of anti-cyclical regulation of global economic processes; mechanisms of functioning of global markets; modern strategies of competitive leadership of global corporations; processes and models of economic regionalization in global conditions; natural, technological and human resources of the global economy; civilizational dimensions of global economic processes; directions and priorities of development of the Ukrainian economy in the conditions of globalization.

During 2004–2024, 16 doctoral and 128 candidate dissertations (including 26 Doctors of Philosophy) theses were defended in the Specialized Academic Council in the specialty 08.00.02 “World Economy and International Economic Relations” (chairman – D. G. Lukyanenko, deputy chairman of the council – L. V. Rudenko-Sudareva, academic secretary – L. L. Antonyuk, members of the council – V. A. Biloshapka, T. V. Kalchenko, O. M. Mozgovyi, T. Ye. Obolenska, E. G. Panchenko, A. M. Poruchnik, Ya. M. Stolyarchuk, T. M. Tsygankova, V. I. Chuzhykov, O. A. Shvydanenko, I. S. Kalenyuk).

Based on the goal of preserving and developing the national identity of education and science at the level of Doctor of Philosophy in the format of new legislation (2014) and taking into account progressive foreign, primarily European experience, a team of scientists (Professors D. G. Lukyanenko, L. L. Antonyuk, A. P. Nalyvayko and Associate Professor O. L. Shevchenko) developed and presented in the professional environment of Ukraine a Model for Training Doctors of Philosophy in Economics. Appropriate methodological, methodological and organizational support for the Doctor of Philosophy training program has been developed with an orientation to international principles - diversity, mobility, adequate duration, sufficiency of funding, and organizational self-sufficiency of universities in development and structuring.

New hypotheses, ideas and results of empirical research personally by Professor D.G. Lukyanenko and his followers have been published in more than 30 individual and collective monographs in Ukrainian, English and Russian, among which the following are recognized in Ukraine and abroad: Globalization and security of development; Management of international competitiveness in the context of globalization of economic development; Global economy of the 21st century: human dimension; Global economic integration; Convergence of economic models of Poland and Ukraine; Countercyclical regulation of the market economy; Globalization prospects; Resources and models of global economic development; Global economic development: trends, asymmetries, regulation; Paradigm of creative management in the global economy; Strategies of competitive development in the global economy; strategic priorities of the development of Ukraine and Georgia: innovation and partnership; Competitive models of management of the quality of higher education; Integration of Ukraine into the global socio-economic space. About 40 textbooks and teaching aids have been published, most in new authorial academic disciplines.

Since 2004, scientists of the scientific and educational school have been publishing a bilingual (Ukrainian, English) scientific professional journal “International Economic Policy” (until 2017, the editor-in-chief was Doctor of Economics, Professor D. G. Lukyanenko, and today – Doctor of Economics, Professor T. M. Tsygankova). The purpose of founding such a publication was to create a platform for disseminating innovations of domestic and foreign scientists and practitioners on institutional, trade, financial, investment, social, informational and environmental issues of conducting global economic policy. The journal’s mission is to scientifically and expertly promote the formation and implementation of global economic policy on the principles of harmony and optimal use of world resources by sustainable development goals. Currently, the journal "International Economic Policy" is published twice a year in print and electronic formats, has its website (http://iepjournal.com/) and is registered in 10 scientific and metric databases (Ulrich'sWeb, IndexCopenicus, EBSCO, CiteFactor, SocialIndexingServices, etc.).

For his significant personal contribution to the development of the higher education system of Ukraine, Lukyanenko D.G. was awarded the Orders "For Merit" of the 3rd, 2nd and 1st degrees. He has the Honorary Title "Honored Scientist and Engineer of Ukraine, Honorary Doctor of Oles Honchar Dnipropetrovsk National University.

In the process of dynamic development of the scientific and educational school of international economics, new scientific schools emerged – global competitive leadership (founder – Doctor of Economics, Professor A. M. Poruchnik) and stock market (founder – Doctor of Economics, Professor O. M. Mozgovyi), international trade (founder – Doctor of Economics, Professor T. M. Tsyganova) and European integration (founder – Doctor of Economics, Professor V. I. Chuzhykov). Today, in the interaction of representatives of these schools, an interdisciplinary approach is being implemented to study modern international economic development problems. On the methodological basis of the school of international economics, a national and later international scientific and research network was formed during 1990–2020: scientific schools and teams of Professor A. Filipenko (Kyiv), Yu. Makohon (Donetsk), Ye. Saveliyev (Ternopil), Yu. Kozak (Odesa), I. Schools (Chernivtsi), V. Shevchuk (Lviv), N. Stukalo (Dnipropetrovsk), O. Bulatova (Mariupol), I. Buzko (Luhansk), M. Vozhnyaka (Poland, Krakow), Center for European Studies of Columbia University (USA) – (D. G. Lukyanenko, V. I. Chuzhykov, O. Y. Vinska), Association of Regional Studies (Great Britain) – (D. G. Lukyanenko, E. G. Panchenko, O. A. Fedirko, V. I. Chuzhykov), Association of Professors J. Monnet (EU, Belgium-France) – (V. I. Chuzhykov).

The most relevant international economic research of scientists is concentrated in the Research Institute of Global Economic Policy (from 2010 to 2019 – Director D. G. Lukyanenko, today – Doctor of Economics, Professor O.A. Shvydanenko), whose mission is to consolidate intellectual resources for generating and implementing creative ideas for social progress in global economic development conditions.

Today, the Institute includes the following research centres: global corporate governance (Doctor of Economics, Professor E. G. Panchenko); global competitiveness (Doctor of Economics, Professor A. M. Poruchnik); international trade development (Doctor of Economics, Professor T. M. Tsygankova); monitoring of international financial markets (Doctor of Economics, Professor O. M. Mozgovyi); international accounting research (Doctor of Economics, Professor O. M. Galenko); European integration (Doctor of Economics, Professor V.I. Chuzhykov); cross-cultural communications (Candidate of Philosophy, Associate Professor O.L. Shevchenko, Candidate of Philosophy, Associate Professor M.M. Gavrish, Candidate of Philosophy, Associate Professor L.S. Kozlovska); research into Islamic finance (Doctor of Economics, Professor O.M. Mozgovyi).

The priority tasks of the further development of the scientific and educational school of international economics are: structured organizational design and self-identification; obtaining international status; acquiring a global information brand in global networks.