Corruption as a threat to Ukraine’s national security in the context of globalization

Abstract

The subject of the study is public relations in the field of national security. The subject is a description of the negative impact of corruption on state security, as well as highlighting positive developments in the anti-corruption activities of Ukraine in order to summarize and integrate them into the activities of public bodies to counteract corruption both in Ukraine and in the world. The research methodology is based on a set of interrelated general scientific methods of cognition. The development of trends in counteraction corruption was facilitated by logical methods and techniques-deduction, induction, analogy, analysis, and synthesis. The method of comparative legal analysis made it possible to carry out the general theoretical characteristic on the borrowing of the international experience of organization and activity of the subjects of counteraction corruption. It is emphasized that the basis for overcoming corruption is an institutional, legal and conscious understanding of the destructiveness of this phenomenon as a direct threat to the security of the state. The scientific novelty of the work is to: uncover key aspects of the destructive effect of corruption on state security as subsystem of national security; identify factors that contribute to the spread and rooting of corruption in Ukrainian society, including paternalism, nepotism, legal nihilism, and a low level of general and legal culture. The study concludes that corruption is one of the phenomena that give rise to crises in various spheres of public life: politics, economy, state administration, and is one of the main prerequisites for the existence of organized crime. The following directions of corruption development as a threat to state security have been identified: “administrative seizure”; “capture” of the economy; “capture” of the state.