The influence of geopolitics on the national security of the state

Abstract

The main task nowadays is to find strategies to ensure a high level of national security. Assurance of the state security must be based on a democratically developed society, guaranteeing of a high level of rights and freedoms of the population, as well as inheritance of European values. National security is intertwined with geopolitics in such terms as state sovereignty, geopolitical role of the country, its geopolitics and geostrategy, the correlation of universal human and national interests, etc. From the scientific point of view, national security of Ukraine can be defined as a system of state and legal as well as social guarantees of living stability and stability of development of the Ukrainian people in general and each citizen in particular, protection of their basic values and legitimate interests, sources of spiritual and material development from possible real and potential, internal and external threats. It is the national security of the state that enables effective management of a transforming society, and this is the most relevant aspect in the current conditions in Ukraine. Political and legal methods and tools, which are based on the basic principles of complexity and systematics, are fundamental factors of national state security. Ukraine's geopolitical location turns it into a kind of geopolitical center - a state that performs communicative functions between two regional systems. Thus, the geopolitical center is a kind of territory of intermediate location, which in its own way is passive, and can be activated at any time in its own interests. The geopolitical component of national security involves preserving sovereignty, territorial integrity and defining its role in the geopolitical space, while ensuring a balance of power through international political, military-political, legal, economic and humanitarian institutions.