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Law Journal of the National Academy of Internal Affairs

  • Received 02.01.2022,
  • Revised 24.03.2023,
  • Accepted 28.03.2023
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Volume 13, No. 1, 2023
  • communication; information; war; narrative; diplomacy; politics; disinformation; fake
  • https://doi.org/10.56215/naia-chasopis/1.2023.44
  • Pages 44-52

The formation of the information society at the current stage is defined by an active process of information exchange and communicative interaction at various levels - interpersonal, between social groups, strata, and countries. In addition to constructive characteristics, the specified process is characterized by a number of risks that face the information security of states and are aimed at violating human rights and freedoms, undermining established democratic traditions and authority on the geopolitical map of the world. This testifies to the relevance of the study of strategic communications as a guarantee of the reliability of the security sector. In view of the above, the purpose of the article is to study the features of communicative interaction at the strategic level in the context of information security of the state. The basis of the methodological toolkit was dialectical and sociocultural methods, as well as systemic, informational and functional approaches, thanks to which it was possible to present strategic communications as a living and open system, the elements of which interact with each other and depend on the cultural and historical conditions of society. The key threats facing information security in the context of communicative interaction at the strategic level are the use of aggressive rhetoric, the production of false information flows, the spread of fake content, myth-making and attempts to rewrite history. The essence of russian information campaigns, which are carried out by means of disinformation, and the experience of the EU and Baltic countries in countering them are considered. Ukrainian realities have proven the rationality of building strategic communications on the basis of public trust in the subjects of information production, given that, in addition to representatives of the diplomatic corps and representatives of the security sector, active participants in this process should be experts from among scientists and civil society in general. The practical value of the results is that they can be used to determine ways to build a national system of strategic communications and create an institution to coordinate this activity at the interagency level

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