International Expertise in Administrative Legal Support of National Security in Ukraine

Background/Objectives: This articles deals with research of international expertise in administrative legal support of national security aiming at its complex and comprehensive analysis. Methods: Methods of restructuring ideas and theories, system and structural and functional, formal legal analysis and forecasting were applied throughout this research to the very phenomena of national security and activity of subjects shaping and maintaining such phenomenon, based on the methodological position. Their application logics relies on an attempt to integrate methodological approaches of various disciplines into the research of national security, and support forms and methods. Findings: This article concludes that the national security is a complex phenomenon and thus a system of interacting components. This system comprises a certain set of concepts and provisions, social and political and legal institutions and establishments, certain means, methods and forms that prevent or ensure an adequate response to any arising dangers and threats. Comparative legal analysis of international expertise in Western European countries and the USA allowed determining new lines of improvement of the administrative legal regulation in the following areas: counteraction of extremist activity; counteraction of illegal migration; combating human trafficking. This article suggests dividing national security into the following types: foreign policy threats to national security, public security, economic security, foreign economic security, military security, information security, environmental and demographic security. National security doctrine in any country is the original conceptual model of stating and resolving a common integrated set of standardized tasks and problems associated with providing protection of national interests. Applications/Improvements: Academic novelty of this research is in an attempt of fundamental theoretical analysis of the phenomenon of 'national security' as a governmental legal phenomenon with strengthening perspectives in Ukraine, establishing equilibrium of public and personal interests, providing sound protection of individual rights and legal interests.