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The Theoretical Substantiation of the Strategy for Ensuring Ukraine’s National Security in Wartime and Post-Wartime Periods
Khaustova V. Y., Trushkina N. V.

Khaustova, Viktoriia Ye., and Trushkina, Nataliia V. (2025) “The Theoretical Substantiation of the Strategy for Ensuring Ukraine’s National Security in Wartime and Post-Wartime Periods.” Business Inform 10:8–23.
https://doi.org/10.32983/2222-4459-2025-10-8-23

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Abstract:
The article explores the theoretical and methodological foundations, as well as practical mechanisms, for implementing State policy in the field of national security during wartime and post-wartime recovery in Ukraine. It identifies key trends in the transformation of the State’s security paradigm under the influence of new geopolitical challenges, hybrid threats, digitalization, and the growing role of international partnerships. Approaches to strategic security management based on the principles of cyclicality, adaptability, risk-oriented planning, and forecasting are summarized. The conception of national security strategizing is substantiated as an ongoing process that includes consecutive stages of diagnosis, planning, implementation, monitoring, auditing, and policy adaptation according to the dynamics of threats and the State’s resource capabilities. The methodological foundation of the study is based on systemic-analytical, institutional, comparative, and strategic approaches, which enabled a comprehensive analysis of the structure and functional interaction of national security actors. Methods such as content analysis, structural-logical generalization, and comparative analysis were used to compare Ukrainian and international strategic security management practices (notably, according to the models of the EU, NATO, the United Kingdom, Japan, and Poland). Based on the synthesis of global experience, principles of integrated strategizing were identified, combining the defensive, economic, energy, digital, and institutional dimensions of State policy. An analytical assessment of the current National Security Strategy of Ukraine «Human Security – National Security» (Presidential Decree of Ukraine No. 392/2020) was conducted, revealing the need for its updating in line with contemporary realities. A substantive model of Ukraine’s new National Security Strategy for 2025–2030 has been proposed, which provides for the institutionalization of the strategic planning cycle with a clear distinction of the roles of management entities; the introduction of a system of strategic indicators and regular strategic audits; the expansion of cyber and digital resilience; the integration of economic and energy security into the overall resilience architecture; and the institutional consolidation of total defense mechanisms and cooperation with EU and NATO partners. Special attention is paid to the implementation of the principle of «managed adaptability» in the strategic management system – through building a transparent vertical of «strategy ? capabilities ? results ? monitoring». Based on the conducted analysis, proposals have been made for the establishment of the National Center for Strategic Forecasting and Security, a digital open analytics platform, as well as a SOC cyber defense network for government authorities and critical infrastructure. General and targeted recommendations have been developed for the main institutions of the security system – the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, the Cabinet of Ministers, the Ministries of Defense, Economy, Digital Transformation, Energy, Education and Science, as well as the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine – aimed at improving the strategic, legal, and organizational support of security policy. The scientific novelty of the study lies in deepening the conception of national security strategy by integrating risk management principles, digital transformation, and indicator-based evaluation into strategic management processes. The proposed model combines systemic and process approaches, ensuring the operational adaptation of policy to the dynamics of external and internal threats. The practical significance of the results lies in the possibility of using the formulated proposals in the development of the updated National Security Strategy of Ukraine, as well as strategic plans for the defense, energy, digital security, and socioeconomic resilience sectors in the post-wartime period. The synthesis of the research results allowed for the conclusion that an effective national security system should rely on an integrated predictive-resilient strategic model focused on collaboration between State institutions, the private sector, and international partners. This approach promotes the strengthening of defense and economic capacities, the development of digital and energy resilience, and ensures Ukraine’s advancement toward full integration into the European and Euro-Atlantic security space.

Keywords: national security, defense capability, threat, risk, vulnerabilities, challenges, national interests, legal and regulatory framework, security policy, security space, resilience, cybersecurity, risk management, conception, strategy, strategic management, strategic planning, State policy, European security, international security, wartime period, post-wartime reconstruction.

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Khaustova Viktoriia Ye. – Doctor of Sciences (Economics), Professor, Director, Research Centre for Industrial Problems of Development of NAS of Ukraine (2 floor 1-a Inzhenernyi Ln., Kharkiv, 61166, Ukraine)
Email: [email protected]
Trushkina Nataliia V. – Candidate of Sciences (Economics), Senior Research Fellow, Sector of Industrial Policy and Innovative Development of the Department of Industrial Policy and Energy Security, Research Centre for Industrial Problems of Development of NAS of Ukraine (2 floor 1-a Inzhenernyi Ln., Kharkiv, 61166, Ukraine)
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