Economic security in post-soviet countries: Level of ensuring and development trends

Abstract

At the national level of economic security studies, a special place has always b elon ged t o t he estimating side of the issue. Estimations of state economic security serve as input data for the determinat ion of directions and ways of further security provision. At the same time, such estimations should be considered not only as a result of a certain methodology application in a certain co un try b ut a lso i n t h e co ntext o f comparing the economic security estimations across a set of countries. The aim of the article is to determ in e the level of ensuring economic security in post-Soviet countries and recognize patterns, ri sks, a n d t h rea ts that affect the future development of state economic security. For comparative analysis of economic security, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Georgia, and period 2016-2020 have been selected. The methodological basis of the study included the following methods: comparative economic studies, methods of summation, arithmetic mean, weighted arithmetic, geometric mean, rating; international index systems were used as a basis for comparative analysis. Using the suggested methodology of estimation allowed obta ini ng results that characterize level real economic security, is lower than average. None of the analyzed countri es has managed to maintain an acceptable level of economic security. The determined levels allow u s t o st a te that the economic systems of the analyzed post-Soviet countries demonstrat e h i gh p ercep ti veness t o t h e actualization of various threats. And this perceptiveness, in its turn, leads to various negative changes in t h e economic systems of these countries. The high perceptiveness of the economic systems in the analyzed p o st-Soviet countries to the actualization of various threats can be explained by the ch an gin g q u ali ty o f t hei r economic potential, low levels of their innovativeness, and also the lack of proper condi ti ons t o a p ply t h e innovations.