The functions of the state are changing, the system of social relations is becoming more complicated, the interdependence of political, economic, social, information and technological processes is increasing. Under such conditions, national security can no longer be considered as a separate area of state activity. It becomes an integral property of the legal system, reflecting its ability to ensure the stability of the state’s development, legal certainty, consistency of the activities of institutions and the protection of national interests. The purpose of the article is to develop a holistic concept of the legal model of the formation and preservation of the national security of Ukraine, determine its structural elements, study the competence of state authorities in the mechanism of implementing the state security policy, as well as formulate proposals for improving the legal regulation of the system of ensuring national security in the context of the transformation of the functions of the modern state and the European integration of Ukraine. The results of the study concluded that the improvement of the current legal model should be carried out in several interrelated areas: – legislative consolidation of the concept of the legal model of national security; – improvement of strategic planning mechanisms; – regulatory and legal development of interdepartmental coordination; – strengthening of democratic civilian control; – harmonization of Ukrainian legislation with modern European and Euro-Atlantic standards. Thus, the prospects for the development of the legal model of the formation and preservation of national security of Ukraine are directly related to the transition from a predominantly institutional approach to a functional and legal model of public administration.

Authored books

1. Bohutskyi P, Kontseptualni zasady prava natsionalnoi bezpeky Ukrainy (Feniks 2020) (in Ukrainian).

2. Hryshchuk O, Konstytutsiini tsinnosti: filosofski ta sudovi aspekty (2nd edn, Vaite 2020) (in Ukrainian).

3. Lipkan V, Teoriia natsionalnoi bezpeky (KNT 2009) (in Ukrainian).

4. Reznikova O, Natsionalna stiikist v umovakh minlyvoho bezpekovoho seredovyshcha (National Institute for Strategic Studies 2022) https://doi.org/10.53679/NISS-book.2022.01 (in Ukrainian).

Edited books

5. Demokratychnyi tsyvilnyi kontrol nad sektorom bezpeky i oborony: teoriia i praktyka: navchalnyi posibnyk (V Pylypchuk (red), Feniks 2020) (in Ukrainian).

6. Horbulin V (red), Svitova hibrydna viina: ukrainskyi front (NISS 2017) (in Ukrainian).

7. Koziubra M (red), Konstytutsiine pravo: pidruchnyk (Vaite 2021) (in Ukrainian).

8. Shakun V, ‘Suchasnyi kryminalno-pravovyi vymir natsionalnoi bezpeky Ukrainy’, Pravnycha nauka ta zakonodavstvo Ukrainy: yevropeiskyi vektor rozvytku v umovakh voiennoho stanu (Iu Barabash, Yu Baulin, A Hryniak, O Skrypniuk (red), Pravo 2023) 704–722 (in Ukrainian).

Journal articles

9. Link M G, ‘Human Rights in Times of Crisis’ [2015] 26(1) Security and Human Rights 69–77 https://doi.org/10.1163/18750230-02601011.

10. Kobko Ye, Pravove rehuliuvannia zabezpechennia natsionalnoi bezpeky v Ukraini: vyklyky sohodennia [2022] 2(85) Pravo i Bezpeka 179–188 https://doi.org/10.32631/pb.2022.2.17 (in Ukrainian).

11. Pylypchuk V, Bohutskyi P, Doronin I, Teoretychni osnovy ta priorytety rozvytku prava natsionalnoi bezpeky [2021] 2 Visnyk Natsionalnoi akademii pravovykh nauk Ukrainy 66– 75 (in Ukrainian).

12. Skrypniuk O, Konstytutsiino-pravovyi mekhanizm realizatsii ta zakhystu prav i svobod liudyny v umovakh viiny: svitovyi dosvid ta Ukraina [2022] 33 Pravova derzhava 11–20 (in Ukrainian).

Conference papers

13. Petryshyn O, ‘Konstytutsiinyi Sud Ukrainy v umovakh voiennoho stanu i povoienne vidnovlennia Ukrainy’, Vizii maibutnoho: konstytutsiinyi vymir povoiennoho vidnovlennia Ukrainy ta yevropeiskoi intehratsii: zbirnyk materialiv i tez II Mariupolskoho konstytutsiinoho forumu (m. Kyiv, 6 zhovtnia 2023 r.) (VAITE 2023) 122–123 (in Ukrainian).

14. Petryshyn O, ‘Prava liudyny v umovakh oboronozdatnoi demokratii’, Zakhyst prav liudyny v Ukraini: suchasnyi stan ta perspektyvy vdoskonalennia: zbirnyk tez naukovo-praktychnoho kruhloho stolu, prysviachenoho 75‑i richnytsi proholoshennia Zahalnoi deklaratsii prav liudyny (m. Khmelnytskyi, 08 hrudnia 2023 roku) (Khmelnytskyi universytet upravlinnia ta prava imeni Leonida Yuzkova 2023) 105–107 (in Ukrainian).