The Theoretical Foundations for the Formation of the Region’s Economic Security System and Its Role in Ensuring the National Security of the State

Abstract

The article is aimed at forming the concept of economic security of region, fleshing out its basic elements, principles of provision, analyzing the functional features and defining the economic security of region as an integral system of the national security of the State. The aspects of formation of the economic security system are considered. Its role in the ability of the national economy of the country and its regions to ensure gradual improvement and proper preservation, first of all by economic methods, the interests of both the individual citizen and society as a whole system is defined. The focus is put on the key role of the economy in all areas of activity at both the State and regional levels. It is underlined that the issue of economic security of Ukraine’s regions is of fundamental importance not only as an integral component within the sphere of national security spread, but also in the context of the whole development of the country. Analysis of the regional aspect of economic security allows to identify the main factors of compliance with economic security by the State as a whole, because the key causes of threats to the economic security of the State are of regional nature. The notion of regional economic security is inextricably linked to the notion of national security, which in turn is viewed in the context of international security. The national security includes several directions: economic, legal, political, social, military complex, defense, information and technological support, development of innovation, resource, energy and nuclear independence, cultural and intellectual potential and support for ecological security.

Keywords

• economic security
• region
• national security
• formation of the region’s economic security system