The article investigates the essence of the “security environment” concept, which has recently been used to define the goals and areas of the security and defence sector of Ukraine, and also ...identifies its structural elements. The term “security environment” is a combination of two concepts – “security” and “environment”. “Security” means the state of protection of vital interests of an individual, society and the state from external and internal threats, and “environment” means a set of certain conditions in which an individual, society or state exists. The concept of “security environment” in Ukrainian legislation and in the national scientific literature is mainly used in the field of military security and defence review. The concept of “security environment” (in the context of the existence of a state or a set of states) should be applied when referring to the set of conditions and factors of its existence that provide such a state with protection from internal and external threats. Based on the analysis of the Ukrainian researchers’ publications, as well as the works of foreign scholars, the author identifies the main types of security environments depending on the characteristics of threats to such environments: external and internal. The external security environment is associated with the elimination of external threats and mostly concerns the military and foreign policy spheres. The internal security environment is formed by minimising internal threats, some of which fall within the direct responsibility of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine.
The correlation of the term “security environment” with related categories, in particular, “national security”, “state security”, “internal security” has been determined. The concept of “national security” actually describes the desired overall state of the security environment of a particular country, which affects the regional or global security environment. The state of national security is actually a characteristic of the overall security environment of the state.
It has been proved that the MIA of Ukraine is a subject of formation and development of the internal security environment of Ukraine. The security environment in the context of the MIA of Ukraine is a set of internal spheres of the country’s socio-political life in which the Ministry of Internal Affairs forms the State policy and exercises its powers as a security and defence sector entity with the aim of ensuring sustainable development of the State and protecting vital interests of a person and society.
Autorzy pracy podejmują problematykę zmian w podejściu do pozyskiwania i utrzymywania kapitału
ludzkiego w Siłach Zbrojnych RP w zestawieniu ze zmianami w środowisku bezpieczeństwa. Wskazują
na ideę ...Wojsk Obrony Terytorialnej jako antidotum na taktykę „zielonych ludzików” zastosowaną przez
Rosję podczas aneksji Krymu w 2014 r. oraz rozwiązania wprowadzone ustawą z dnia 11 marca 2022 r.
o obronie Ojczyzny i program zwiększenia liczebności Wojska Polskiego jako element budowy potencjału
wojskowego będącego elementem skutecznego odstraszania. Do osiągnięcia celu, to jest wzrostu liczebności
SZ RP do ok. 300 tys. żołnierzy, konieczna była systemowa zmiana w obszarze rekrutacji oraz form
i zasad pełnienia służby wojskowej. Wskazanie na nowoczesne – nadążające za rozwojem współczesnych
pokoleń – rozwiązania oraz wzrost atrakcyjności służby w organizacji uchodzącej dotychczas w opinii wielu
za konserwatywną jest istotą niniejszego opracowania.
The authors of the work take up the issue of changes in the approach to acquiring and maintaining
human capital in the Polish Armed Forces in comparison with changes in the security environment. They
point to the idea of the Territorial Defense Forces as an antidote to the “little green men” tactics used by
Russia during the annexation of Crimea in 2014, as well as the solutions introduced by the Act of March 11, 2022 on defense of the homeland and the program to increase the size of the Polish Army, as an element
of building military capability as an element of effective deterrence. To achieve the goal, i.e. to increase the
size of the Polish Armed Forces to approx. 300,000 soldiers, a systemic change in the area of recruitment
as well as the forms and principles of military service was necessary. Pointing to modern – keeping pace
with the development of modern generations – solutions and increasing the attractiveness of service in
an organization considered by many to be conservative is the essence of this study.
We need a brief assessment of the international security environment in order to have a more realistic picture of the world we live in, having the perspective of threats, risks and vulnerabilities. ...The current and future security environment is characterized, among other things, by its complexity of actors, dynamism of threats as a result of the rethinking of the political-military postures of some states with military potential ore emerging states and non-state actors. In the foreseeable future, the security environment will continue to be influenced by multiple challenges, risks and threats, caused by the globalization phenomenon and political, economic, military and technological interdependencies which can provoke strategic surprises. The European area is in a continuous process of transformation with strategic implications. The systemic transformation will affect the European states and their adjacent regions visibly but distinctly, but the impact on European and Romanian security will be differentiated in the long run.
The relevance of the chosen topic is due to the importance of the security environment in the framework of improving the management efficiency of such a socio-economic system as the state and its ...regions. The main purpose of the article is to substantiate the main ways of forming the security environment of the socio-economic system in the context of minimizing the main threats. The scientific task is to highlight the environment of the socio-economic system in Ukraine; establishing possible links between hazards. The object of the study is the threat to the system of formation of the security environment in Ukraine. The article uses the method of hierarchical ordering, which makes it possible to increase the efficiency of management in the framework of the formation of a security environment by counteracting the main threats. The main result of the study is a hierarchical ordering of threats to the formation of a security environment in Ukraine. The proposed approach to the allocation of strategic, tactical and operational management of counteracting the main threats to the formation of the security environment in Ukraine can be considered innovative. The study is limited by taking into account not all aspects of public administration and security aspects. Prospects for further research should be devoted to expanding the security of public administration efficiency.
A misunderstanding or a disagreement, an incompatible situation or a competition between opponents that can generate into violence, conflict is a constant feature of human society. It can lead, ...depending on the context, to development or, on the contrary, to the dissolution of the organization or society. From the international relations’ point of view, a conflict is a dynamic process based on the clashing of interests of the international system’s participants. After the end of the Cold War, the change of conditions and determinations at the international level imprinted a specific evolution of the international conflict by transforming it in accordance with the conversion recorded by the global power architecture. In the same logic can be explained the reverse of the conditioning relationship, respectively of transforming the structure of the international system depending on the stake and the magnitude of the international conflict.
The Biden administration’s approach to the Indo-Pacific strategy represents the latest and most ambitious incarnation of the ‘new multilateralism’—an institutional redesign that seeks to respond to ...unprecedented changes in and challenges to the US-led international order. This article sheds light on the conceptual underpinnings, structural features, and development of the strategy. It shows how ‘entrepreneurial’ Japanese diplomacy, US coalition-building, Transatlantic policy convergences, and the galvanizing effects of the Russian invasion of Ukraine have combined to shape the contours of the strategy and endow it with a sense of common purpose. It brings into sharp focus the US strategy’s reliance on the creation, strengthening, and leveraging of informal institutional configurations of power and cooperation. And it highlights some of the factors that might result in this approach ultimately proving to be more of a triumph of structure and process than of concrete substance and accomplishment.
Regional organizations (ROs), a key component of the global order, have become a significant tool for achieving foreign policy objectives of the member countries. Amidst the prevailing ...politico-strategic environment, a speckled range of national interests of the regional states and non-regional states has motivated or compelled the states to create, collaborate and participate in the functioning of ROs. India is associated with those ROs that possess objectives convenient in pursuit of its national interests and also identical to its foreign policy targets. In this context, this article argues that India’s policy towards ROs is shaped by the Cold War and post-Cold War developments along with the emerging strategic and security environment in the twenty-first century. These developments have created a divergence or convergence of India’s preferences and beliefs with other countries and have determined its participation in the ROs. It is participating actively in the functioning of ROs in pursuit of its national interests in diverse arenas. The ROs, especially South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC), Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and even European Union (EU) and Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) are the key instruments for India to achieve the objectives of respective Neighbourhood First Policy (NFP), Look East Policy (LEP), Act East Policy (AEP), Look North Policy (LNP), Connect Central Asia Policy (CCAP) and Indo-Pacific Vision (IPV) frameworks of its foreign policy towards South Asia, Southeast Asia, Central Asia, Indo-Pacific and the globe. Apart from economic, strategic and security cooperation in the regional context, the ROs can help India in bolstering its image and status as a key power in global affairs.
The contemporary security environment is undergoing periodical radical changes in which more and more diversified threats are emerging, determining that the age in which we live is marked by crises ...of a different nature. That is why the use of intelligence has become a concern of military and political decision makers, especially in terms of its integration into combat functions to ensure and maintain a high combat capability and thus the combat power necessary to achieve objectives/mission. The peculiarities and specific features of modern/contemporary military conflicts, as well as the influence of technological evolution or, as specialists call it, the revolution in military affairs has led to changes including in the field of military intelligence, which is essential to keep up with the present and anticipate the future. These changes have led to changes in the place and role of military intelligence in the military phenomenon, changes in doctrines, techniques, tactics and procedures, and the readjustment of requirements to the changes applied. Military intelligence structures must be conceptually integrated and not only with the other collection capabilities of the National Defence System, Public Order and National Security.
