In this Issue

Abstract

The paradoxical factors of war and peace are transforming the models of democratization of the modern world, irreversibly changing the hierarchy of the main actors in international, regional and national security. The democratization of the external environment, although proceeding inconsistently and contradictorily, does not give anyone the opportunity to trample on civiliarchic norms and procedures or ignore human interests and rights with impunity.

Economization, steadily leading to the formation of a single world economic space, makes national security models based on isolationism unviable, and integration into this emerging space is the only possible way to effectively protect national interests. To refuse integration means to abandon sustainable development, since such development is a key prerequisite for ensuring the resilience of national security. No society can be competitive without becoming part of the global economic space. This factor, among other things, determines the priority of geo-economic mechanisms for ensuring national security compared to geopolitical and geostrategic ones, since it is geo-economics that becomes a priority for global development.

Digitalization, which forms a single world information and communication space, creating a global network society, gives citizens of the countries covered by it access to all material and spiritual benefits, multiplies the intellectual resource, and therefore all other resources, promoting sustainable development, achieving well-being and security of the individual and society. On the other hand, information technologies are not an absolute blessing: they create new opportunities for control and manipulation of mass consciousness in domestic politics and new effective means of interstate confrontation, and, consequently, new threats to national security.