MARKET OF OIL PRODUCTS IN THE NATIONAL SECURITY SYSTEM OF THE COUNTRY

Abstract

In times of war, the importance of strengthening the national approaches to the security of nation, country, society and individuals is especially increasing. It is also impossible to bypass the problems of ensuring economic security and other functional components of national security, without which the full existence of any country is unthinkable. A key role in the national security system is played by the market of petroleum products, which place and importance for strengthening national security should be realistically assessed and it’s regulatory mechanisms should be developed. Since scientists still don’t have any unanimity regarding the interpretation of the concept of «national security» and the selection of its functional components, there is a request for clarifying the theoretical and methodological basis of the problem of ensuring the country's national security and establishing the place of the oil market in its system. The purpose of the presented article is to study the essence of the concept of «national security», its structure according to functional components and the place of the petroleum products market in ensuring the country’s national security. In the research process, the methods of induction and deduction, comparison and systematization, abstraction and concretization were used to clarify the essence of key terms, make theoretical generalizations and draw conclusions; visual representation of the results of the research is provided thanks to the application of the tabular and graphic methods. The article examines the approaches of scientists to the definition of the essence of the concept of «national security», and offers the author’s interpretation of it. Approaches to the selection of functional components of national security are considered, the advantages and disadvantages of each of them are characterized, the author’s vision of the system of functional components of national security is determined by the sphere of distribution. It has been established that one of the key functional components of national security is economic, which includes a lower-order subsystem of energy security. At the same time, energy security aims to create the necessary conditions for the development and application of a system of protective measures against external and internal threats to the energy system of Ukraine, namely the security of nuclear energy, electric power, the oil and gas industry, the coal industry, energy efficiency, and green energy. One of the key places in the energy system of Ukraine is occupied by the oil products market.