progress. It involves investments and technologies, labor, intellectual and financial
resources, management and marketing, etc. Globalisation has become a permanent
factor in both domestic and international economic processes with a contradictory
impact on national economies and on the entire course of the world economic
development.
On the one hand, globalisation is unlikely to increase the ability of individual
countries to use an optimal combination of diverse resources and ensure their deeper
and more comprehensive participation in the system of international division of labor,
but on the other hand, global processes significantly toughen competition and allow for
mismanagement of financial and investment resources, which poses a real threat to low
and middle income countries, as well as to problematic areas inside countries [15: 87].
Moreover, globalisation processes do not help alleviate regional problems. There
is a growing trend towards strengthening world interconnectedness and
interdependencies. While globalisation is increasingly penetrating the most remote
corners of the planet, the problems of certain regions become more apparent at the
global level. The overall level of globalisation is determined by the growing economic
interdependence of countries and regions, the interweaving of their economic
complexes and economic systems. Globalisation at the level of an individual country
is characterized by indicators such as openness of the economy, the share of foreign
trade turnover or export in GDP, the volumes of foreign investment flows and
international payments, etc. The sectorial aspect of globalization is best illustrated by
the ratio of volumes of inter-industry trade to the global industry output, the
corresponding indicator in the field of investment, as well as the coefficient of industry
specialization, calculated on the basis of the ratio of national and international export
quotas in the industry [13:193].
Thus, it is vital to take into account the ambiguity and the heterogeneity of the
impact of globalisation on the development of various groups of countries and
industries.
Research results. Systemic understanding of economic security. Literature
suggests several views on the definition of the national economic security. The term of
economic security was first introduced and used in the context of the global crisis by
the US President Franklin D. Roosevelt and he considered economic security as a set
of conditions that securely provide good living conditions, social protection, and
employment levels enabling people receive decent and stable income [20:14].
Formally, economic security as a term was recognized in 1985, when a resolution on
international economic security was adopted at the 40th session of the General
Assembly of the United Nations [18:7]. Subsequently, the issue of economic security
was studies in the works of eminent American scholars Kennan and Morgenthau. They
saw the main task for achieving the country’s economic security in strengthening the
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