Security challenges in the geopolitical state of the modern world as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic

According to the geopolitical dimension, the concept of security is ambiguous. Security usually involves protection from external military threats or risks to a state by another state, as well as protection from internal military threats from non-state entities. In recent decades, the traditional concept of security has been completed by other concepts that have expanded the nature of possible threats, joining to the military threats the threat of terrorism, organized crime and diseases, combined with economic, political, social, environmental and biological risks. Accordingly, the list of threats has been revised, in particular for security at the global, national and individual levels. Today, we observe the world’s leading countries struggling to overcome the financial and economic challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. At the end of the twentieth century and in the first twenty years of the twenty-first century the ecological and biological threats and the insidious danger they bring became especially acute. The means of mass destruction include toxic and bacteriological (biological) weapons. The action of the latter is based on the use of pathogenic properties of biological warfare agents – microorganisms that can reproduce in humans, animals and plants and cause mass diseases. The use of infectious agents for base purposes can have not only military but also terrorist and criminal purposes. Therefore, in recent years, the international community has made significant efforts to analyze the effectiveness of compliance with national laws, codes of conduct and ethics, disease surveillance and response, bioprotection and biosecurity. Together with the developed mechanisms of counteraction and security, the development of microbiological and medical technologies, the real challenge of the scale of civilization at the end of 2019 was the spread of the COVID-19 virus..

Medienart:	E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:	2020
Erschienen:	2020

Enthalten in:	Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:3
Enthalten in:	Економіка, управління та адміністрування - 3(2020), 93, Seite 63-69

Sprache:	Englisch ; Polnisch ; Russisch ; Ukrainisch

Beteiligte Personen:	V.F. Zahurska-Antoniuk [VerfasserIn] D.О. Grytsyshen [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:	Business Covid-19 pandemic Geopolitical situation Security challenges Transformation of society

doi:	10.26642/ema-2020-3(93)-63-69

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PPN (Katalog-ID):	DOAJ075733331