The research proposed a solution to the current problem of substantiating the theoretical foundations and developing practical recommendations for improving the mechanisms for ensuring national security in the defense sphere.
Achieving the specified goal made it necessary to solve such tasks, namely, the functions and content of the mechanisms for ensuring national security in the defense sphere were determined, and the foreign experience of ensuring national security in the defense sphere was systematized. The author characterized the directions of international integration in ensuring national security in the defense sphere and provided an assessment of the system of mechanisms for ensuring national security in the defense sphere. Ways to improve the investment mechanism of the defense industrial complex for ensuring national security in the defense sphere are determined and the strategic directions for the development of the organizational and structural mechanism of the defense industrial complex for ensuring national security in the defense sphere are substantiated.
The object of the study is the mechanisms of national security in the defense sphere of Ukraine, and the subject of the study is the properties of mechanisms for ensuring national security in the defense sphere and attitude towards them.
The methodological basis of the research is general scientific methods of research and special methods based on modern scientific principles of management, economics and related sciences. The methodology of the research was based on a systematic approach, the methodological specificity of which is determined by the fact that it focuses the research on the disclosure of the integrity of the object and the mechanisms that provide it, on the selection of various types of connections of a complex object and their reduction into a single theoretical picture.
The author used a number of scientific methods, in particular: the hypothetical-deductive method of forming the methodology of the dissertation research, which made it possible to form a research hypothesis, to build heuristic models for improving the mechanisms of ensuring national security in the field of defense.
The deductive proof of the proposed research hypothesis not only confirmed the correctness of the formation of its methodology, the validity of the conclusions, but also made it possible to propose and verify practical recommendations for the improvement of the researched object; structural and functional analysis, the essence of which consists in the selection of elements of the system of mechanisms for ensuring national security in the defense sphere; a number of comparative methods that made it possible to analyze standards and mechanisms for ensuring national security in the defense sphere; a statistical method that made it possible to reveal real and accurate facts about the state of the object under study; a prognostic method, by means of which more distant prospects of its development are determined; the theoretical and conceptual method that determined the direction of the research, embodied in the analysis of the functions, structure and parameters of the object, and made it possible to identify, understand, describe and compare the role of mechanisms for ensuring national security in the defense sphere, to specify their functions in the activity of each of the subsystems, evaluate the results of managerial influence, identify prospects and mechanisms.
Keywords: national security, defense industrial complex, state, mechanisms of public regulation, mechanisms for ensuring national security in the defense sphere, organizational and structural mechanism of the defense industrial complex for ensuring national security in the defense sphere, investment mechanism.
