Defining the Domain of Economic Security: Continuation of the Discussion

Abstract

Theoretical and practical work is basic to achieving economic security. At the same time, the field of economic security has no clear boundaries, which requires the clarification on it. For present purposes, it is critical to take the specificities, the subject and object of the economic security. Two main methods of research consist of retrospective and theoretical analysis. In order to understand the problem and clarify the field of economic security, we analyzed: the socio-economic context of sourcing and maintaining the scientific and practical interesty; States’ positions and institutional transformation; research findings. As a result, analysis of socio-economic context has led to a pointing at two major areas: 1) economic security of the country, and 2) economic national security. Based on the analysis of documents fixing the "status" of economic security in the Russian Federation, it is concluded that economic security is considered in relation to national security in Russia. A wide range of problems in the field of economic security has been identified: economic security is studied at the micro, meso and macro levels (depending on the facility level); economic security of an organization, municipality, region, industries, state (depending on the management entities); economic provision for national security, national economic security, economic security of the country (depending on target-settings). Two ways of understanding the economic security are revealed based on the analysis of the foreign authors’ research results: economic security in the socio-economic context (1) and national economic security (2). The approach is argued, according to which the field of economic security should be considered as a position of preserving the economic stability and a position of preserving the targets-settings established by the management entities.