CONCEPTUAL DEMARCATION BETWEEN CONCEPTS NATIONAL SECURITY AND STATE SECURITY IN THE UKRAINIAN POLITICAL DISCOURSE
CONCEPTUAL DEMARCATION BETWEEN CONCEPTS NATIONAL SECURITY AND STATE SECURITY IN THE UKRAINIAN POLITICAL DISCOURSE

Summary/Abstract: This article is devoted to the conceptual demarcation of the concepts of national security and state security in Ukrainian political discourse. In methodological terms, the article focuses on the use ofresearch in various areas of political and security knowledge. The set of general and special methods ofpolitical science became the methodological basis of the article, which provided a comprehensive approachto the problem of identifying the specifics of the coverage of national security and state security in theUkrainian political discourse. The research methodology is based, in particular, on such general scientificprinciples as the unity of historical and logical, the ascent from the abstract to the concrete, objectivity,systematicity, the principles of analysis and synthesis, and so on. In particular, the analysis of the categoriesnational security and state security was carried out in the political and legal context. It was concluded thatthe category of national security is broader than the category of state security, which is an important markerof the democracy of the political system of a certain state. It is reasoned that the type of political regime inthe state acquires significant importance in the conceptual demarcation of the concepts of national securityand state security. The more developed a democratic society, the easier it is to identify conceptual differencesbetween the two definitions. Under the conditions of dominance of an undemocratic political regime in the state (totalitarianism/ authoritarianism), the conceptual features of these concepts ‘merge’.

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