NATIONAL SECURITY AS AN OBJECT OF ADMINISTRATIVE AND LEGAL SUPPORT: CONCEPT AND CONTENT IN THE WORKS OF DOMESTIC RESEARCHERS

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of national security as an object of administrative and legal support, offering a working definition and structural model of this object through the prism of Ukrainian legal doctrine and modern management practices in the security and defence sector. It shows that administrative law sets the regulatory boundaries, procedural logic and tools of public administration for identifying, preventing, neutralising and minimising threats, as well as determining the balance between security requirements and guarantees of human rights and freedoms.Based on a summary of the positions of domestic researchers in the field of administrative law and security studies, the content of the key elements of the mechanism is revealed: rule-making and regulatory regimes, control and supervision, administrative procedures and enforcement, interagency coordination, risk management, and digital management tools. Particular attention is paid to institutional design (the President, the Verkhovna Rada, the Cabinet of Ministers, the National Security and Defence Council, sectoral bodies), the correlation of their powers and the requirements of democratic civilian control, as well as procedural guarantees of the proportionality of administrative interventions.The author proposes a doctrinally consistent definition: national security as an object of administrative and legal support is a sphere of public-administrative relations in which the powers, procedures, regimes and means of coercion, and service mechanisms of the state and local self-government bodies aimed at protecting the constitutional order, human rights and freedoms, sovereignty, territorial integrity and the stability of critical state functions are established through the norms of administrative law.The result of the study is a framework for assessing the ’procedural stability’ of the mechanism, which combines risk-oriented regulation with due process guarantees and operational accountability metrics, suitable for implementation in regulatory and management decisions.