Ensuring national security as a main component of public administration

Abstract

The basic priority of life activity is the preservation of the qualitative certainty of statehood and the functioning that corresponds to its nature, and national security reflects the degree of protection of the material and spiritual values of man, society and state institutions from dangers or their absence and the related basic priorities for ensuring the positive dynamics of statehood development. Therefore, the choice of specific ways, means, and methods of ensuring national security is determined by the need to take timely measures, adequate to the nature and scale of threats to statehood. The purpose of this article is to analyze the provision of national security in Ukraine, which is regulated by the regulatory framework, and to substantiate the feasibility of improving state policy in the field of national security, taking into account the martial law in Ukraine. The materials of the study are: 1) regulatory and legal support for public management of national security; 2) works of domestic and foreign authors who conduct their scientific and practical research in the field of state-management activities in the field of national security. In the process of conducting the research, the following scientific methods were used: theoretical generalization and grouping to characterize the components of national security, as well as analysis of the current legislation of Ukraine, which allows us to conclude that the objects on which the managerial influences of subjects of state and administrative activity is directed are: constitutional rights and freedoms of man and citizen; spiritual, moral and ethical, cultural, historical, intellectual and material values of society; constitutional order, sovereignty, territorial integrity and inviolability; information and natural environment; natural resources. In the article, the problems of ensuring national security in Ukraine are analyzed in detail. It is noted that their specific diversity and complexity are constantly increasing, which is a natural consequence of the threatening situation in almost all spheres of state and public life. At the same time, national specificity regarding the sources and manifestations of threats is revealed. The analysis of information sources shows that there are different definitions of the concept of threats to national interests, and the concept of "threat" is general and is widely used in the analysis of phenomena, actions, inaction, events that can cause harm to a person, society, state. At the same time, it should be emphasized that the threat may arise with one or another degree of probability under certain conditions that are not always easy to foresee. The choice of ways, means and methods of ensuring national security is determined by the need for timely adoption of measures adequate to the nature and scale of dangers to statehood. Therefore, we believe that there is a need to analyze and use international experience in ensuring the national security state policy, taking into account their specific conditions and new challenges. It remains important to develop and implement effective measures aimed at real solutions to the main problems of ensuring the national security of our country.