The dissertation is dedicated to the profound study of the security dimension of the foreign policy of the Kingdom of Denmark with regard to the regional and global tendencies of the international environment evolvement. The active foreign policy of Denmark as well as its efficient efforts, regarding the proliferation of the stability and security in the world for the period of the last decade, are based on steadfast believes regarding the value of legal bases, main freedoms and democratic development; and provide a valuable subject for study, especially at a time of turbulent changes of modern international environment. Denmark’s strong support for Ukraine in its resistance to Russian aggression, support for the Ukrainian Armed Forces and explicit approaches within NATO regarding the ways of countering modern security challenges and threats, which unfold, multiply and vary in spatial and functional plane, increases the importance of the fundamental study of the issues raised in the dissertation from the Ukrainian perspective. For the first time at the level of dissertation the Denmark’s foreign policy activity in the international environment is researched as an example of an execution of the security policy of a small country. Moreover, it is proven that with the evolution of Atlanticism to Super Atlanticism, as a one of a kind of Denmark’s activity, the pattern of interaction of this country with other members of international relations in the field of security overcame a profound transformation and follows suit of modern practices of influential and powerful international actors. It. Is also acknowledged that modern foreign policy of the Kingdom of Denmark, within the framework of implementing security imperatives of the country, is a specific example of the small country’s activity in in the international environment. Apart from that, regional levels of the security policy of Denmark implementation are researched, in particular Nordic, European integration and transatlantic, wherein the direct correlation is defined between the readiness of the country for more profound involvement in institutional formats of guaranteeing the security, which evolve in Northern Europe or in the framework of the European Economic Community/EU, and the status of the transatlantic relations (NATO) and the character of the interaction with the USA as a priority partnership. There is a stress on intersectionality of the evolution of Denmark’s approaches towards guaranteeing its own security and changes in the character of its bloc politics, which resulted, in particular, in rejecting neutrality and joining the North Atlantic treaty Organization, institutionalizing the nuclear-weapon-free status, trying to distance from the processes of inter bloc confrontation by implementing the “footnoting policy” within NATO, and transfer of the country towards the active participation in peacekeeping processes on the regional and global levels due to the improvement of the security environment after the end of the confrontation between East and West. The relevance of extra-parliamentary internal consensus on security issues – Defence Agreements (established in the end of Cold War) – is pointed out with regard to processes of transformation and development of security sector of Denmark, which on one hand is based on targeting the main security challenges, military interests and challenges for the country in all parts of the world, and on the other hand is based on setting the necessary standards for the appropriate financing of the Armed Forces of Denmark for the sake of their stable development. Moreover, there is provided a systematic understanding of Denmark’s approaches and principles of implementing its security policy in the international environment, based on the belief of openness of society of Denmark (close interconnection of the authorities and public at large), which executes activist foreign policy regarding the spectrum of challenges and threats, which are caused by non-state and state actors, and simultaneously envisage a necessity to counteract high-tech and law-tech weapons, prevent harmful instrumentalization of hybrid and cyber strategies, counter extremism and terrorism in interconnected sub regional, (Northern Europe, Eastern Europe) regional (Artic, Europe), trans regional (Middle East, Northern Africa) and global context.
