The thesis substantiates a comprehensive study of theoretical and practical problems of ensuring national interests and territorial integrity of Ukraine in the context of crisis management, modern transformational changes in public administration. On the basis of analysis of studies of domestic and foreign scientists, research approaches to the formation of a complex of national interests are divided into the following directions: in the form of decisions and resolutions of international organizations. In fact, it is a certain generalization of the concept of "national interests", which is based on constitutional norms, regulations of functioning of administrative structures, provisions of profile legislative acts, peculiarities of geopolitical status, membership in international and intergovernmental organizations. The second strand is based on the establishment of institutional characteristics of the formalization of national interests and involves a combination of political, socio-economic and security components, and is now complemented by factors of military-political and military-economic cooperation. The third strand is based on a modern understanding of the concept of "security and territorial integrity of the state". Within this area the mutual influence of national security factors, identification of threats to state sovereignty and territorial integrity are investigated, the geopolitical status of the country is determined. The fourth area is based on a comprehensive study of the peculiarities of national interests in the context of open or latent armed conflicts.
Based on the analysis of studies of domestic and foreign scientists, it is proposed that research approaches to the formation of a complex of national interests be divided into the following areas: the first direction involves a combination of international and national parts of the qualification of problems in the field of national interests, based on regulation by international legal acts, which are set forth in the form decisions and resolutions of international organizations, and on this basis a generalization of the concept of "national interests sys ”, based on constitutional norms, regulations on the functioning of managerial structures, provisions of relevant legislative acts, specifics of geopolitical status, membership in international and intergovernmental organizations. The second direction is based on establishing the institutional characteristics of formalizing national interests and provides for a combination of political, socio-economic and security components, and is now complemented by factors of military-political and military-economic cooperation. The third area is based on a modern understanding of the concept of "security and territorial integrity of the state." In the framework of this direction, the mutual influence of national security factors, the identification of threats to state sovereignty and territorial integrity are investigated, and the country's geopolitical status is determined. The fourth direction is based on a comprehensive study of the features of ensuring national interests in open or latent armed conflicts.
The content of legal norms as an element of the mechanism for ensuring national interests and territorial integrity in the field of public administration is analyzed. The features of the functional components of ensuring national interests in the context of transformational changes in public administration are considered. The methodological foundations of the assertion of territorial integrity as a component of national interests are investigated. The essence of the normative legal certainty of the concept of territorial integrity is determined, as well as the institutional features of ensuring territorial integrity. The process of establishing a national security system and ensuring the territorial integrity of Ukraine as a component of the formation of a modern state in the format of crisis management is analyzed.
