National Security of Ukraine: Challenges and Threats

1. National Security of Ukraine: Challenges and Threats

2. Total assessment of the international affairs and situation of Ukraine • growing instability • conflict and military potential danger. • the growth of tense background of global economic crisis. • intensify of the struggle for leadership in the world, • increase of armaments quantity, • decrease of legal structures role and mechanisms which ensure international security.

3. New risks and instability factors: • ethnic conflicts • human rights violations • political instability • proliferation of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons • terrorism, sabotage • organized crime

4. The main challenges: • The growing of new centers of power in the world. • changing the center of economic impact from West to East • Guarantees received by Ukraine in connection with the abandonment of nuclear weapons in 1994, are institutionally designed and not actually performed • Slowing the process of Ukraine's accession to Euro-Atlantic system of collective security • The main problem of eastern European policy is the inability to effectively coordinate in real time, security requirements and problems associated with the development of democratic processes in neighboring countries. • Real threat of military conflicts” in the region escalation near Ukraine's borders because of the so-called "frozen

5. The main challenges: (continuation) • inability of Ukrainian officials to put national interests above their personal • Russian leaders try to restore the dominance of their country in former Soviet Union. • internal instability makes Ukraine vulnerable on the international scene and hurts national security

7. The threats for national security of Ukraine in foreign policy: • encroachment on state sovereignty of Ukraine and its territorial integrity, claimed by other states; • military-political instability, regional and local conflicts in different regions of the world, especially near the borders of Ukraine.

9. in the internal sphere • constitutional and law violation by state and local officials, rights and freedoms of citizens; • the potential interethnic and interfaith relations conflict; • the threat of separatism in some regions of Ukraine; • structural and functional imbalance in the political system of society.

10. in the economic sphere • dependence of the national economy from the external market; • large dependence of the state debt, the critical volumes of state internal and external debts; • dangerous growth of foreign capital in strategic sectors for the independence of Ukraine economic; • ineffectiveness of anti-monopoly policy and the mechanisms of state regulation of natural monopolies, which makes creating a competitive environment in the economy; • "Shadow" of the national economy; • prevalence of the management structures of personal, corporate, regional interests over national .

11. in public security: • corruption, bribery in government, union of business and policy, organized criminal activity; • illegal migration; • dangerous reduction of military and special equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine; • incompleteness of contractual and legal registration and insufficient improvement of the state border of Ukraine; • unsatisfactory level of social protection of servicemen and their families.

12. IN THE INFORMATION SPHERE: • manifestations of speech freedom and access to information; • computer crime and computer terrorism; • disclose of confidential information of the state; • attempts to manipulate public consciousness, using incomplete or biased information; • informational wars.

14. The main problems: • What are the reasons that hinder Ukraine to ensure national security? • What is the best way to ensure national security of Ukraine?

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