Institutional Mechanism to Ensure National Security in the Information Space of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Russian Federation

Sergii Bondarenko,Mykola Polovyi,Tetyana Nagornyak

doi:10.14746/ps.2020.1.16

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Abstract

The paper is devoted to an analysis of the institutional mechanisms that ensure national security in the information space of several leading countries – the United States, the United Kingdom and the Russian Federation. It is stated that institutional mechanisms that ensure national security in the information space of the leading countries all have a similar structure. The main components of these mechanisms involve public authorities (state leaders – president or prime minister, government, ministries, and agencies), local government bodies, civil society institutions, the academic community, business community, and the media. The gradual expansion of the system of institutions that ensure national security in the information space and increase in their powers occurs in all these states. The analysis also demonstrates the paradigm shifts in the development and implementation of US and UK information policy in the context of modern nonlinear processes. Paradigmatic shifts are currently being reoriented towards the interests and needs of target audiences, diversification of channels and mechanisms of the distribution of meaning (strategic narratives) in the information space, from vertical to horizontal interaction with internal and external audiences. Emphases are shifting to the involvement of a wide range of institutions and other stakeholders in the implementation of information policy and delegation of powers from the center to the periphery, while preserving the main parameters of the policy established by state structures.

Highlights

Modern world order is influenced by the multi-vector processes taking place in the information space
We offer to consider the totality of political and non-political institutions, whose activities are related to ensuring full communication with target audiences in order to clarify and ensure support of national interests, as the institutional mechanisms for the implementation of the information direction of national interests ensuring
Generalized models of functioning of different institutional structures aimed to ensure national security in the information space in contemporary leading states are discussed in another paper of the authors (Bondarenko, Nagornyak, Polovyi, 2018: 44–54)

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INTRODUCTION

Modern world order is influenced by the multi-vector processes taking place in the information space. The development strategies of G-8 countries prioritize the information direction of the national security policy, but in the transitive countries it remains almost undeveloped, which makes them extremely vulnerable to external influences. The purpose of this article is to analyze the institutional mechanisms that ensure national security in the information space of several leading world countries. The organization of these mechanisms may become a model for many states that, despite their smaller size and capabilities of international influence, will attempt to control their information space and maintain national security in there. National security can be characterized as a set of attitudes that provide definition of vital spheres of life and directions of development of the political territory (nationstate) in the internal and external political space. The main task of the process is to ensure the achievement of political goals of the nation-state through the management and adjustment of political-image and political-semantic spaces

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