NATIONAL SECURITY AS AN OPEN AND DYNAMIC SOCIAL SYSTEM

Abstract

National security is a quantitative and qualitative characteristic of the development of a social system, i.e. it is not only an assessment of a certain security of this system against potential and real threats.  It reflects the results of the impact of development trends and conditions of life of the society, its institutions, which ensure the preservation of qualitative certainty of the social system and free functioning that corresponds to its nature. Today, there is a wide variety of definitions of national security, and their authors have their own opinions and approaches to the interpretation of this concept.

The components of the national security system (NSS) are: subjects of national security; objects of national security; a set of government instruments that can be used to maintain an adequate level of protection of national interests; an array of current national legislation that defines the priorities of the state policy of national security; a set of external and internal factors of national security. Such components of the NSS as a set of subjects and objects of ensuring national security, a set of instruments of power, sources and subjects that pose threats to national interests are to a greater extent structural, while such components as the body of legislation and national security factors that determine the conditions and tasks of the NSS are functional. Some components of the NSS are relatively static, while others are more dynamic in terms of changes in space and time. From the point of view of a systemic approach in the process of interaction between an individual, society, state authorities and local self-government bodies in ensuring national security, taking into account the interrelationships between them and their environment, the NSC can be considered as an open, dynamic, social system, the functioning of which is aimed at protecting the national interests of the state.

Thus, national security is a quantitative and qualitative characteristic of the development of a social system, i.e. it is not only an assessment of a certain degree of protection of this system from potential and real threats. It reflects the results of the impact of development trends and conditions of life of the society, its institutions, which ensure the preservation of qualitative certainty of the social system and free functioning that corresponds to its nature. Thus, the dynamics of the impact of external and internal factors on national security, which simultaneously affect international security, necessitates constant reorganization, creation and elimination of certain components of the system, including those that are simultaneously integrated into the NSS, as well as into departmental, regional and international security systems