System as a complex category of reflection of national security in theoretical-legal research

Author(s):  
Andrey Vladimirovich Putintsev

The subject of this article is the methodology of reconstruction of national security as a complex social and political-legal phenomenon in modern scientific knowledge. Special attention is given to the provisions of the theory of state and law, political science, as well as official documents – the acts of strategic planning that are of theoretical and applied significance due to the presence of formal definitions in their texts. The article employs formal-legal and doctrinal analysis of scientific sources. Methodological framework is comprised of the category of “system” and systemic approach in various interpretations. Logical analysis is conducted on different variants of definitions of the category “national security system” and “system of ensuring national security”. It is revealed that systemic analysis, which historically is one of the most popular approaches that can reflect the multidimensional objects of research, has long been included into the scientific tradition of studying national security. The author explores several variants of systemic approach: the theory of national security as a system; national security as a system property; and national security as a system. The analysis of interpretation of national security as a system determines the two main categories: national security system and system of ensuring national security. The first category features mostly scientific interpretations, while the second category has received a legal definition, having transformed from the scientific category into an element of the object (social reality), and simultaneously, means of its construction. The author indicates the existence of methodological pluralism in determining the components of national security systems. The article examines successful and unsuccessful examples of application of systemic approach in studying national security, and identifies typical methodological errors. The author concludes on the limited heuristic possibilities of systemic approach in reflecting the dynamics of ensuring national security, as well as underlines the need to use the categories of “mechanism”, “regime"”, or “process”.

Author(s):  
VLADIMIR PREBILIČ ◽  
JELENA JUVAN

Globalizacija je bistveno spremenila mednarodno varnostno arhitekturo. Globoke reforme nacionalnovarnostnih sistemov, ki se osredotočajo predvsem na vedno višjo profesionalizacijo in specializacijo, so postale nujna posledica. Pa vendar je, če želimo zagotoviti neko stopnjo varnosti, pogoj nedvomno osebni motiv oziroma motivacija posameznika tako pred vstopom kakor pri opravljanju nalog znotraj nacionalnovarnostnega sistema. Motivacija pa bolj kot kjer koli drugod izhaja iz občutka domoljubja pri posamezniku, zato države domoljubju v sodobnih nacionalnovarnostnih sistemih namenjajo veliko pozornosti. Vprašanje je, ali se tako vedenje preslikava v civilno družbo, katere pomemben del je nacionalnovarnostni sistem. Še posebno zanimivo je ugotavljati povezavo med mladimi in domoljubjem ter nacionalno varnostjo, saj je tudi od tega odnosa odvisna prihodnost nacionalnovarnostnega sistema kot tudi prihodnjega zagotavljanja varnosti. Rezultati kažejo zaskrbljujoč odnos mladih do vprašanj vojske in vojaških zadev ter politike in političnih zadev. Globalization has significantly changed the international security architecture. Radical reforms of national security systems have become a necessary consequence, focusing mainly on the higher level of professionalization and specialization. However, in order to ensure a certain level of security, the pre-condition undoubtedly lies in the personal motive or motivation of individuals both, before they join the military service and when they perform duties within the national security system. Motivation, more than anything else, derives from an individual's sense of patriotism. Therefore, individual countries devote a lot of attention to patriotism in modern national-security systems. At this point the question arises whether such behaviour is reflected also in the civil society, whose important part is the national security system. It is particularly interesting to determine a connection between the youth, patriotism and national security, as this relationship is important for the future of both, the national security system and provision of security.


Author(s):  
Ryszard Wróblewski

The aim of the article was to identify the subject areas related to the management of the proposals of some elements and to propose the concept of managing Poland's national security for the purposes of developing the act on national security management announced in the National Security Strategy of the Republic of Poland-2020. The main research problem was the question: What key elements and solutions should be included in the concept of national security management for the purpose of developing a draft act on national security management? The following hypothesis was adopted: The national security system should form a coherent, in terms of organization and functionality, system of interrelated management and executive bodies. Unfortunately, the existing national security system of the Republic of Poland does not fully meet the above requirements, which has already been signaled many times, for example during successive strategic national security reviews and strategic defense reviews. Moreover, the concept of national security management should, in particular, specify the answers to the following questions: 1) What is contemporary national security? 2) What is national security management? 3) What are the key challenges facing national security management? 4) What is the role of policy and strategy in national security management? 5) What should be the architecture of the national security management system during the war. The verification of the above hypothesis and answering the above questions required a critical analysis of legal acts, strategic documents and selected items of literature on the subject. The results of the author's many years of research in this area were also taken into account.


2018 ◽  
pp. 39-44
Author(s):  
Maciej Bąk

This paper analyzes the definitions and characterizes the elements related to national security. The author pays particular attention to the change of determinants and threats which significantly influence the way in which a given state’s security is perceived, and how it evolves. In the author’s opinion, at present one can observe the tendency to expand the subject matter and spatial range of national security in international relations, which follows from the internationalization of various realms of social life. It is impossible to improve the national security of a given state while tolerating the disturbances of peace that result from the widening gaps between different parts of the world, or unsolved regional and local conflicts. The main purpose of this paper is to draw the reader’s attention to the changes resulting from the need to adjust the national security system to the new challenges; the changes that not only aim to defy these challenges, but also to prevent the factors that generate them.


2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (34) ◽  
pp. 202-214
Author(s):  
Anna Agnieszka Suchocka

Background: Ensuring national security is one of the priority tasks of state authorities. At the poviat level, Poviat Crisis Management Centers occupy a special place in the implementation of this task. Objectives: The purpose of the article is to show the importance of the Poviat Crisis Management Center in the national security system. Methods: The place of the Poviat Crisis Management Center in the national security protection system was determined on the basis of an analysis of the literature on the subject. Conclusions: The Poviat Crisis Management Center plays a key role in anti-crisis activities at the poviat level.


Author(s):  
Serhiy Komissarov ◽  
Dmytro Parkhomenko

In the article, based on the analysis of theoretical provisions of national security and current legislation governing the system of national security, the author explores the basic concepts: «national security», «national security», «types and forms of national security». As a result of the study for further development of the theory of national security of Ukraine, its implementation in modern practice of Ukraine, ensuring effective protection of vital interests of man and citizen, society and state, the author proposed his own definitions of «national security», «national security system». «Type of national security», «form of national security». The author proved that it is more appropriate to use the concept of «national security system» which means a set of measures taken by national security actors in accordance with the tasks and powers assigned to them, for timely detection / management / disposal of threats or dangers of external and internal nature. The author also formulates certain concepts of specific types and forms of national security. Thus, the type of national security is an action or set of actions of state and non-state institutions that are aimed at maintaining a level of national security that is necessary and sufficient for society and that satisfies the vital interests of the individual. The form of national security is the implementation by the subject of national security of normatively fixed, peculiar only to him measures, by means of which his powers to ensure national security are realized in accordance with the set tasks.


Author(s):  
إبراهيم محمد زين

الملخّص يهدف هذا البحث لبيان أن السبيل الناجح لمواجهة الإرهاب الدولي المعاصر الملتبس بدعاوي الجهاد الإسلامي وإحياء دولة الخلافة الإسلامية هو التركز على معاني الأمن الفكري والروحي في الإسلام وهذا الاتجاه في المباحثة يُعيد النظر في طرائق قضايا الجهاد ويميز بين ما هو عقائدي ومرتبط بنظام الإسلام الكلي وبين ما هو من مجال حروب الفتنة والصعلكة.  الكلمات المفتاحيّة: الجهاد، حروب الصعلكة، حروب الفتنة، الأمن الروحي والفكري.              Abstract This study focuses on the most effective way of combating global terrorism that utilizes the banner of Jihad and restoration of the Khilafa system of governance. It should be emphasized that there is a dire need for a new line of investigation concerning the issue of Jihad that pays more attention to both spiritual and intellectual security systems in Islam. This requires a distinction to be made between what is universalistic in the Islamic system and what is particular. In this regard one has to differentiate between acts of just war and those of economic or sedition wars. Keywords: Jihad, economic war, sedition war, spiritual-intellectual security system.


2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (6) ◽  
pp. 1849-1854
Author(s):  
Marin Petkov

The rapid development of science and technology has led to the emergence of a crisis in society. Science "pushes" religion, but does not offer a new moral code in its place. The definitions of "security" are almost as many and as controversial as postmodernism. For the purposes of this study, however, it will be sufficient to define security as "the functional state of a system that provides for the neutralization and counteraction of external and internal factors affecting or potentially damaging the system." This scientific article presents a study, which seeks to answer the question why the paradigm "security" is so important in the postmodern society, what are the roots of its influence and meaning, and to seek conclusions and guidelines for its increase.


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