Title: Legal nature and transformation of the national security concept in the context of global challenges of the present (on the example of the Republic of Kazakhstan)

Authors: Botagoz A. Umitchinova; Yuliya A. Gavrilova; Galina A. Menzuk; Kairat O. Alembayev; Dinara Z. Kozhuganova

Addresses: Department of Law and International Relations, Kazakh-American Free University, Ust-Kamenogorsk, Republic of Kazakhstan ' Department of Law and International Relations, Kazakh-American Free University, Ust-Kamenogorsk, Republic of Kazakhstan ' Department of Law and International Relations, Kazakh-American Free University, Ust-Kamenogorsk, Republic of Kazakhstan ' Department of Law and International Relations, Kazakh-American Free University, Ust-Kamenogorsk, Republic of Kazakhstan ' Department of Law and International Relations, Kazakh-American Free University, Ust-Kamenogorsk, Republic of Kazakhstan

Abstract: The article considers the evolution of the legal institution and legislative support of national security. The aim of the study is to determine the legal nature of national security and to study the problems of its ensuring in the context of global challenges of the present (on the example of the Republic of Kazakhstan). The research is based on two groups of methods: general scientific (the methods of empirical research and general logical methods) and special legal ones (the formal legal method, the comparative legal method and the method of law interpretation). It established that the global challenges and threats of the present lead to the emergence of new types of national security, which also requires regulatory support. The article recommends a new type of epidemiological (or sanitary-epidemiological) security to be designed and included along with food security in the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan 'On National Security'.

Keywords: national security; challenges and threats; strategy; interests of the individual; legal institution.

DOI: 10.1504/IJESDF.2022.122586

International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics, 2022 Vol.14 No.3, pp.264 - 273

Received: 13 Jan 2021
Accepted: 12 Apr 2021

Published online: 03 May 2022 *

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