Abstract
Critical infrastructures (include the body of systems, networks, and assets that are so essential that their continued operation is required to ensure the security of a given nation, its economy, and the public's health and/or safety) are significant for the growth and development of our society, drastically affecting most of the everyday activities as the components of the critical infrastructures are increasingly vulnerable to a dangerous mix of traditional and nontraditional types of threats. Taking into account a significant role of Critical Infrastructure in national and international security maintenance, the article analyses and interprets the policy pillars of Critical Infrastructure concepts in the European Union, NATO as well as in G7 Countries. Particular attention is paid to determining the functional purpose, approaches to the classification of the main components of critical infrastructure (structural content) and characteristics of them. At the end of this article there is suggested a generalized view regarding to the essence of Critical Infrastructure, as well as attention is drawn to the fact that the adopted approaches generally take into account that Critical Infrastructure now rarely exist or function in isolation, rather, they are becoming more tightly coupled, interconnected and interacted that creates a complex multisystem - a system-of-systems.
Highlights
In the past three decades the developing and modeling of Critical Infrastructure has become a growing research area as Critical Infrastructures are essential assets for the maintenance of vital societal functions and safety of which is significant because its improper functioning may result in considerable loss.Critical Infrastructure and their effectiveness are of great importance for the quality of life, economy and functioning of other sectors as they are closely related to energy security, telecommunications, energy systems, gas and oil pipelines, transportation, water supply and etc
Due to threats from state- and non-state actors, as well as the increased severity and frequency of severe weather events, developing Critical Infrastructure resilience is an issue of utmost importance for ensuring security and the common good
There are still ongoing debates regarding Critical Infrastructure concept and its protection, especially, how to effectively protect them given their vital positions in social and economic developments) as the concept of Critical Infrastructure has been changing over time according to the disaster situations and rapidly changeable security environment
Summary
THE ESSENCE OF CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE EUROPEAN UNION, NATO AND G7 COUNTRIES. Vephkhvia Grigalashvili, PhD in Public Administration, Assistant Professor, International Black Sea University, Tbilisi, Georgia.
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