REGIONAL FACTOR IN SHAPING THE GLOBAL SECURITY ENVIRONMENT: CONCEPTS AND TRENDS

Abstract

Timely detection of existing and prevention of possible threats to national security, strengthening the protection of national interests in the conditions of the current security situation, and forecasting trends in the development of the security environment should always be among the strategic priorities of state policy. The volatility and unpredictability of the security space as a result of the Russian-Ukrainian war intensify the search for new strategies for global, regional and national security in the face of military challenges. The relevance of the study lies in the understanding of the controversial dichotomy of globalization and regionalization as vectors of the development of international relations and geopolitical transformations. The purpose of the article is to emphasize the potential of their interconnection and interdependence, the equivalence of mutual influences of both globalization processes on the structure of regionalization and regional factors on modern global dynamics. It is proven that regionalization acts as a conceptual model of structuring society based on the internal pluralism of its territorial units, which combines both the tendencies of opposition to unification and excessive centralization, and the search for new, more effective forms of regional management. It was determined that regionalism appears in modern scientific discourses as an objective trend of social development and a theoretical and methodological key to its tracing and representation. A systematic analysis of the processes of regionalization of the global space based on innovative methodological approaches of socio-humanitarian studies will make it possible to clarify the true meaning of world transformation processes, to represent new hypotheses for the development of global-regional social systems, to generate optimal security policy directions and strategies to guarantee regional security in the European space.