Theory-practice problems of public national security policy related to the concept of “complexity” (methodological aspect)

Abstract

The article analyzes the theoretical and methodological approaches to substantiate the complexity of the phenomenon of “national security”. It concerns the prospects for the application of principles and methods of post-non-classical science in the study of this phenomenon, which are productive in relation to complex, nonlinear, open systems that are self-developing. The factors that determine the differences between classical and non-classical science in terms of revealing the essence of the phenomenon of complexity of national security are identified and characterized. The necessity is substantiated for supplementing the classical theory of national security with post-non-classical scientific exploration as the complexity of the security environment with a number of concepts: “organizational complexity”, “complexity as an uncertainty”, “complexity as a risk”, “information complexity”, etc. Post-non-classical ideas of the phenomenon of complexity of national security as a category of political science are developed and a possible typology of diversity of concepts of its complexity is offered. It is determined that the development of the complexity of national security becomes ambiguous and allows many options. On this basis, the fundamental differences between post-non-classical rationality and classical rationality in the study, development and implementation of public national security policy are formulated and substantiated. The preconditions for the implementation of new post-non-classical political practices of national security have been identified and substantiated.