The Phenomenon of National Security within Postmodern Cultures: Interests, Values, Mentality

Authors

  • Leonid Kryvyzyuk Hetman Petro Sahaidachnyi National Army Academy
  • Bohdan Levyk Lviv Polytechnic National University
  • Svitlana Khrypko Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University
  • Alla Ishchuk National Pedagogical Dragomanov University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18662/po/12.3/328

Keywords:

security, national security, security studies, national interests, national values, post-reality, social-political reality

Abstract

The article is devoted to defining the essence of security, particularly national security, its interpretation, main features, structure, and factors. The research focuses on the main concepts of the modern understanding of national security and defines national security according to recent research. The authors have performed a structural and functional analysis of the system of national security of Ukraine, which would be an adequate counteraction to threats to vital national interests. The article examines the multi-vector interpretation and representation of the security phenomenon with an increased focus on the axiological paradigm of postmodern society analysis. The cardinal role of postmodernism is considered as a manifestation of postmodern culture in the value dimension of social-political existence. Postmodernism, on the one hand, enabled new vectors of analytical understanding and perception of the security phenomenon. On the other hand, it introduced an imbalance and determined the crisis factor in the space of classical perception of security guarantors due to violating the established foundations and traditions (especially in the perception of the state institution). The rejection factor is seen as a core feature of postmodern social-political reality. The emphasis is given to the problem of the security standard in the security studies and the idea of the mutual determination of both national interests and national values. The article states the importance and priority of historical memory and the phenomenon of mentality in the context of future analytical discourses in the scope of Ukrainian security studies.

Author Biographies

Leonid Kryvyzyuk , Hetman Petro Sahaidachnyi National Army Academy

Doctor of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor at the Department of military intelligence, analysis and forecast of social and political processes, Deputy Director of the Military Arts Department, Hetman Petro Sahaidachnyi National Army Academy

Bohdan Levyk , Lviv Polytechnic National University

Doctor of Historical Sciences, senior research officer, director of the Regional Research and Education Center “Holodomor, Holocaust: Interethnic Dialogue” at Lviv Polytechnic National University

Svitlana Khrypko, Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University

Doctor of Philosophy, Associate Professor at the Philosophy Department, Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University (Kyiv, Ukraine)  

Alla Ishchuk , National Pedagogical Dragomanov University

Doctor of Philosophy, Associate Professor at the Department of English Philology, National Pedagogical Dragomanov University (Kyiv, Ukraine)

 

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2021-08-10

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Kryvyzyuk , L. ., Levyk , B., Khrypko, S., & Ishchuk , A. (2021). The Phenomenon of National Security within Postmodern Cultures: Interests, Values, Mentality. Postmodern Openings, 12(3), 77-95. https://doi.org/10.18662/po/12.3/328

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