Informational Dimension of Ukrainian National Security Policy in the Conditions of Modern Geopolitic Competition

Abstract

The problem of maintaining security has been relevant throughout world history. This task is relevant today. Ensuring Ukraine’s national security is a complex and multidimensional process. The complexity of this task increases when considering it in the new geopolitical environment. In the modern world, contradictions of a geopolitical nature are growing, and competition between countries is intensifying. These processes take place against the background of the humanity entering a new phase of its development associated with the formation of the information society. Issues of formation and development of the global information society are in the focus of world politics. In its turn, the information space is closely connected with world geopolitical processes, as the struggle of geopolitical actors to achieve information superiority is becoming the main direction of modern geopolitical competition. The information factor is playing an increasingly important role in the political upheavals and conflicts that are emerging in different parts of the world. Crises in modern society are diverse and can affect everyone without exception. Crises such as political and military, economic and financial, social and ethical, ecological and energy, etc. occur most often and are well studied. The entry of modern society into the information phase of its development has created the conditions for the emergence of social crises associated with the information sphere of human life. The information spheres of society and the state are closely interconnected. The process of their interaction and merging goes on intensively. Today we can observe a pronounced manifestation of information and political crises both in the domestic life of individual states and in the world political arena as a whole.