1Department of Public Administration and Public Service, Institute of Public Administration, Lviv Polytechnic National University, Lviv, Ukraine
2Head of the Postgraduate and Doctoral Studies Department, Shupyk National Healthcare University of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
3Department of History and Political Theory, Dnipro University of Technology, Dnipro, Ukraine
4Director of Human Resources and Entrepreneurship, National University of Water and Environmental Engineering, Rivne, Ukraine
5Department of Public Administration, Interregional Academy of Personnel Management, Kyiv, Ukraine
6Department of Public Administration, Shupyk National Healthcare University of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
*Corresponding author: scientistua@ukr.net (ORCID ID: 0000-0003-0945-6971)
Online published on 3 March, 2025.
The study attempts to comprehend today’s trends in changing the focus of national security toward a deeper consideration of the role of local government in security processes, including economic aspects as core drivers. Geopolitics and geoeconomics implications are analyzed within the context of cities, and the challenge of the necessity and, at the same time threat of decentralization is emphasized. It is proposed to view today’s national security as a multilayer system in which economic aspects represent an important landscape.
⓿ The article considers today’s trends in changing the paradigm of national security and shifting more emphasis towards the local level, the influence of local government on the security landscape, in particular, within the effect of economic aspects.
National security, Public Administration, Local government, Geopolitics, Geoeconomics
