FEATURES OF THE PROTECTIVE APPROACH TO DETERMINING THE REGIONS’ ECONOMIC SECURITY

The article defines the essence of the concept of “the region's economic security”. A number of scientific approaches to defining the category of “economic security” in modern economic security are considered. A protective approach to the interpretation of economic security, which considers security as protection from danger, focuses on the perception of security as a form of confrontation with danger. The views of scientists on the factors influencing the state of the region's economic security are analyzed. The risks of regional economic development, which are divided into exogenous and endogenous, are considered. A variety of threats have been identified that pose a danger to the full life of economic entities at the regional level. Today, one of the main threats to the regions' economic security is the gap in the levels of socio-economic development of regions: differences in geographical location, natural resources, human resources, structure and specialization of regional economic complexes, features of economic and historical development. The analysis and systematization of scientific approaches to the definition of “economic security of the region”, the main ones are identified, such as: a set of conditions and factors that ensure the sustainability and stability of the region's economy; the ability of the regional economy to function in a mode of self-reproduction; certain economic independence and integration with the state economy; protection from the effects of destabilizing factors. The system of the region's economic security is highlighted as a set of interrelated organizational and legal measures to reconcile various interests, which ensures the stability, adaptability, self-organization and development of the regional economy in interaction with the external environment of its operation. The main objects and subjects of the region's economic security system are substantiated. Two strategic goals of achieving a high level of the region's economic security, which corresponds to the level of European regions, are described.