Genesis and current trends in determining the essence of the scientific category «economic security»

Economic security is a condition for a balanced and stable State. The transformation of the social, political and economic state of Russia, together with changes in market conditions on a global scale, indicate the need to consider theoretical approaches to determining economic security as one of the relevant issues that form the basis for the protection and preservation of national interests. The proliferation of new technologies, including those related to the digitalization of society, makes it necessary not only to follow modern trends, but also, based on studies of past years, to develop the ability of the state to respond in a timely and adequate manner to the destabilizing effect of various facts. The article presents the genesis of targeted guidelines for economic security and the evolution of approaches to the definition of the term «economic security» in Russia, which made it possible to identify the first preventive attempts to reduce the likelihood of negative consequences and localization of threats to national security, both in Russia and abroad. The author analyzed modern domestic trends and scientific views in foreign countries on economic security issues, as well as a brief comparative description of approaches to determining national security in the Russian Federation and the United States of America. The article contains a wide range of approaches to the definition of the term «security», as well as a retrospective of the scientific worldview and reflection on the essence of security as an economic category. Imperfections were identified in the «traditional» approaches, as well as in the modern European and American paradigms of economic security. The author's definition is proposed in the conclusion of the article.

national security, economic security, economy