DEMOCRACY, CIVIL SOCIETY AND SECURITY IN THE CONDITIONS OF THE RISK SITUATION EXPANDING

Abstract

In the conditions of a military invasion of Ukraine, the discourse of national security and the place of our state in the system of international relations is expected to be actualized. This trend originates from such a global characteristic of the modern world as the spread of risk situation. From our point of view, the development of democracy and civil society is an important factor in ensuring the internal and external security of our country. One of the important prerequisites for effective security of Ukraine is the level of involvement of civil society into this process. Hence the need for a theoretical analysis of the discourse of civil society and democracy, reconstruction of the main concepts and concepts used in it. Otherwise, if this discourse is used uncritically, there is a danger that terms and words begin to obscure reality from our view. The works of domestic and foreign authors were used to study the problem posed in the article. The research is based on the principles of such methodological approaches as critical, interdisciplinary, systemic and comparative analysis, as well as on general scientific principles of objectivity and historicism. A developed civil society provides for the articulation of public interests, within the horizon of which the realization of private interests takes place. This situation requires the replacement of «patronage politics» by «politics of real affairs». From the point of view of the study of mechanisms for ensuring democratic security, this means that it is possible to talk about it within the functioning of the public space. Democratic security is possible if citizens are active.