Modern Theory of National Security: Its Object and Subject

Abstract

The paper proposes the authors' theory of security based on the achievements of natural sciences, according to which the state of security as a survival model can only be provided by a self-sufficient and independent subject, in other cases we should talk about the security of subjects who have created a collective security subject. The object of security, i.e. what it affects, are the useful and dangerous properties of the surrounding world and the security subject itself. The object of security, i.e. what it affects, are the useful and dangerous properties of the surrounding world and the security subject itself. The object of security, i.e. what it affects, are the useful and dangerous properties of the surrounding world and the security subject itself. All unknown properties are considered dangerous. Since the security subject independently and self-sufficiently ensures its security, it is also the object of security. Threats to security are manifestations of dangerous properties of the surrounding world and the security subject itself. Subjects unable to survive on their own create or join an actual subject of collective security, endowing it with their properties for its sovereign survival. They themselves act as the forces and means of ensuring security, moving to a new model of survival – protection on the part of the subject of collective security.

Within the framework of the proposed theory of “security” – this is a model of collective survival through independent and sovereign satisfaction of vital needs for self-preservation, self-maintenance and self-reproduction through the protection of their own and involved forces and means engaged in obtaining, processing and understanding (forecasting, identification, analysis, evaluation) of information and knowledge about the dangerous and useful properties of the security subject and the world around him (in the form of other subjects and the environment), their manifestations in the past, present and future, with the subsequent implementation of the information and knowledge obtained for the prevention and control of established hazardous properties, the development and application of a set of operational and long-term measures for goal-setting, identification, prevention and elimination of their manifestations, as well as localization and neutralization of their consequences.