Introduction

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Stevens ◽  
Nick Vaughan-Williams
Keyword(s):  
Political Psychology ◽  
National Security ◽  
International Terrorism ◽  
Security Threat ◽  
Security Strategy ◽  
Threat Perceptions ◽  
National Security Strategy ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
The Uk

This chapter highlights the importance of the subject matter of the book and situates the approach and contribution in the fields of International Relations and Political Psychology. While spending on national security in the UK since 2001 has more than tripled to £3.5 billion (Cabinet Office, 2008), it remains unclear how the objectives of the National Security Strategy are received by the British public, whether they are aware of and/or understand those objectives, and if they feel more or less ‘secure’ as a result of their existence. One aspect of this lacuna is a broader lack of social scientific research, including a tendency within security studies to focus on elite perceptions and constructions of security threat. Another is a lack of understanding of the political psychology of different threat perceptions, of the kinds of information and communications that heighten or reduce sense of threat when there are multiple existing threats, as opposed to singular threats from international terrorism or immigration, and of the consequences of different threat perceptions for other political attitudes and behaviours. Having discussed these problems this Introduction maps out how the chapters that follow seek to redress them.

Actual Challenges, Risks and Security Safety

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-83
Author(s):  
Božidar Forca ◽  
Dragoljub Sekulović ◽  
Igor Vukonjanski
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Security Strategy ◽  
Theoretical Understanding ◽  
National Security Strategy ◽  
Security Challenges ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Almost All ◽  
The Relationship

Security is one of the most common terms in the modern world. This statement is supported by the fact that the term security is used in a wide range of areas. The subject of this paper is national security and the challenges, risks and threats to that security in contemporary international relations. The purpose of the work is twofold. First, to show the diversity of theoretical understanding of the term challenge, risk and threat by various authors. On the other hand, the overriding goal is to analyze the relationship to the challenges, risks and threats in different countries. When it comes to national security, challenges, risks and threats, most often, are identified in a document called the national security strategy. This document, as one of the highest in the hierarchy of political acts of every state, when it comes to security, is passed by almost all modern states of the world. The analysis of numerous national security strategies has revealed that it is possible to identify: 1) the challenges, risks and threats that appear in all strategies, 2) the challenges, risks and threats of security that appear in most strategies, and 3) the challenges, risks and threats of security which are country specific.

scholarly journals Conceptual Aspects of Research and Forecasting the Implementation of the National Security Strategy of Russia

2020 ◽  
pp. 45-52
Author(s):  
Maksim Valentinovich Andreyev ◽  
Ruslan Renatovich Temirbulatov
Keyword(s):  
Complex System ◽  
National Security ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Federal Law ◽  
Security Strategy ◽  
Management Measures ◽  
National Security Strategy ◽  
Russian Federa Tion ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Russian Federation

The present study provides the results of a theoreti-cal and methodological analysis of the problem of ensuring national security in the Russian Federa-tion. There is evaluated the strategic forecasting and planning management measures aimed at ensuring the state’s national security. The object of this study is the problem of ensuring Russia’s national securi-ty. The subject of the study is the regulatory legal system for ensuring the national security of the country: Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 683 “On the National Security Strate-gy of the Russian Federation” dated December 15, 2015; Federal Law No. 390-FZ “On Security” dated December 28, 2010; Federal Law No. 172-FZ “On Strategic Planning in the Russian Federation” dated June 28, 2014; as well as a set of other statutory documents regulating activities to ensure the na-tional security of the Russian Federation. It is con-cluded that at present there is understudied the sci-entific analysis of the problem regarding the devel-opment of a nationwide complex system within the framework of ensuring the national security of the country. Scientific research on the designated topic has shown that the forms and methods of ensuring national security, taking into account modern chal-lenges and threats, are an integral part of the system of critical technologies, which should ensure the implementation of the most important priority areas for the state, including ensuring economic, scientific and technical security.

scholarly journals Crimes of terrorist and extremist nature: statistical results of implementation of the National Security Strategy of the Russian Federation

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Georgii Moskalev
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Security Strategy ◽  
Research Attention ◽  
National Security Strategy ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Statistical Results

The subject of this research is the rate of recorded crimes of terrorist and extremist nature in their dynamics for the period of implementation of the National Security Strategy of the Russian Federation until 2020. For the purpose of discovering the impact of criminalization and decriminalization processes upon the changes of this index, the author explores s the norms on responsibility for extremist and terrorist crimes, which also comprise the subject of this research. Attention is given to corrections in method of accounting of such crimes in the examined period, as well as their impact upon the changes of the index. In the course of study it was discovered that compared to 2009, the number of recorded crimes of extremist nature during the period of 2014-2018 increased by 2.5-3 times, but in 2019 this index has returned to the initial numbers, which is explained by partial decriminalization of acts stipulated by the Article 28 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. The number of recorded crimes of terrorist nature by 2019 superseded the 2009 index by almost 3 times, caused by criminalization of various accompanying manifestations of terrorist activity. The growth in the indexes of both cases relates to expansion of the list of actions attributable to the aforementioned categories of crimes in formation of statics. In the end, implementation of the Strategy cannot be assessed negatively due to growth in crime rate, since it is caused by the socially justified amendments to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and changes in statistical calculation.

scholarly journals The Content of Professional Training of Masters in National Security at the UK Universities

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 49-56
Author(s):  
Bohdan Braiko
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
Organized Crime ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Global Instability ◽  
Security Strategy ◽  
National Interests ◽  
Transnational Organized Crime ◽  
National Security Strategy ◽  
The Uk

AbstractThe article deals with the content of training Masters in National Security at the UK universities. The problem of the state’s national security in the context of the state’s general development and the realization of its national interests has been actualized. It is noted that maintaining the national interests of any state world provides an adequate response to the challenges and threats of today, namely the implementation of an effective national security policy. It is found that the UK’s national security strategy lists all the key threats that the government believes are threatening the state. Terrorism has been the top problem since the terrorist attacks in London in 2007. The proliferation of nuclear weapons and other types of weapons of mass destruction causes much anxiety, too. The UK strategy also includes threats such as transnational organized crime, global instability and conflictogenity (in the Middle East and Africa), global climate change, energy shortages, poverty, etc. The conducted research proves that the UK seeks to identify and eliminate such threats as transnational organized crime, global instability and conflictogenity, global climate change, energy shortages, poverty, etc. The UK National Security Strategy is based on such key values as human rights, the rule of law, a lawful and responsible government, justice, freedom, tolerance and equal opportunity for all. As a result, the UK universities aim to diversify professional training of specialists in national security incorporating into the field such areas as peace or war studies, conflict studies, terrorism, insurgency, etc. The content of professional training for national security specialists, namely masters, provided by King’s College London, the University of Leeds and Coventry University are characterized by the following features: adherence to the nation-wide principles of national security, the conceptual diversity of degree programmes (national security studies; peace and conflict studies; security, terrorism and insurgency), focus on humanities, profession-oriented compulsory modules, a wide range of optional courses, flexible combination of study and work and personal commitments, research challenges, taking into account the dilemmas and challenges of globalization and integration, promotion of human rights, etc. The relevant recommendations have been singled out to improve the content of professional training for such specialists at Ukrainian universities.

scholarly journals RUSSIA IN THE UK NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 453-459
Author(s):  
E.V. Ananieva
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Global Change ◽  
National Security ◽  
Balance Of Power ◽  
Security Strategy ◽  
National Security Strategy ◽  
The World ◽  
The Uk ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Eu

The unsatisfactory state of Russian-UK relations should be considered not so much in a bilateral format as in the context of global change in the balance of power. It is necessary to take into account not only the factor of Britain's exit from the EU and Britain's search for its place in the world, but also the traditions and principles of the United Kingdom's foreign policy throughout history. The new National Security Strategy of Britain (March 2021) is integrated, for the first time including in a single concept traditional areas of defense and security, as well as aid to development and foreign policy. The author analyzes the evolution of approaches to the content and the implementation of London's foreign policy strategy after Brexit in the light of its significance for Russian-UK relations.

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