National security policy: Changing priorities in the face of the COVID-19 threat

• Petro P. Pidyukov National Academy of Internal Affairs
• Alexander G. Kolb Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University
• Oleh V. Batiuk Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University
• Ihor H. Kudria V. I. Vernadsky Taurida National University
• Larysa S. Tarasiuk V. I. Vernadsky Taurida National University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.46398/cuestpol.3969.47

Abstract

This article analyzes institutional, procedural, and behavioral attributes, principles, and indicators of typology of challenges and threats caused by the coronavirus pandemic in the world. The analysis shows that most countries faced external shocks caused by COVID-19 in the absence of a universal social protection system, a reliable health system, a plan to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, or a stable real economy with quality jobs. Economic security has become an important priority, although this is not about social protection, but also about supporting strategic sectors of the economy. Balancing on the brink of the needfor socialprotection, on the one hand, and the rise of austerity, on the other, governments opted for severe economic restrictions. Thus, through the naaliticos method the authors describen the main geopolitical trends that will be the basis for the construction of a new world order that awaits us on the other side of the pandemic, including deglobalization, the geopolitical rise of China, the severe restrictions on human and civil rights, the intensification of the interstate armed forces, in context of growing conflicts and local protests.

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