ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF NATIONAL IDENTITY AS A CONDITION FOR SECURITY AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE STATE
Authors:   Prydniprovska State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Moiseienko Iryna , Suliievich Oleksandr ,   Warsaw School of Economics, Morozova Yevheniia ,   Prydniprovska State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture
Published: June 2022

The lack of political will to build new common identifiers for citizens threatens national security and the possibility of the state's continued existence. For Ukraine in the conditions of war and transformation of the global economy, the formation of a common identity is one of the basic problems of national security and economic development of the state. The purpose of this study is to substantiate the theoretical and methodological foundations for ensuring the security of the state and the development of the national economy, taking into account national self-identification and the principles of economic nationalism. In order to perform the research tasks, the peculiarities and the significance of national self-identification are determined. National and spiritual self-identification as a subjective characteristic acquires special significance in the modern conditions of globalization and urbanization of life. National identification presupposes a number of obligatory social aspects and is defined as the state, social, cultural affiliation of an individual, and not his anthropological and ethnic identity. Threats to national self-determination and national security are formulated: the lack of linguistic and cultural homogeneity threatens damage to national interests – interregional confrontation, civil war, etc. Decreased levels of trust between people and the state, civic activity, negatively affects the functioning of democratic institutions, the economy and the involvement of people in political life. Modern features of national identity formation are identified. At the present stage, people living in megacities largely reproduce the trends and models of social behavior of alienation, degradation of social relations and a high level of irrationality of decisions. Having destroyed the traditional economic models of life of basic social groups (territorial communities), most states have failed to introduce new qualitative models of social interaction in terms of public resources and self-reproduction. It is substantiated that for the formation of common mechanisms of security and development of people need common means of communication, value systems, as well as a common goal of development, which are formed in the field of culture. That is why culture is a determining social institution for ensuring the security and life of the people from the standpoint of biological and socio-economic reproduction. It is proved that the optimal community for self-reproduction and formation of criteria of national identity is a territorial community in which it is possible to distribute social roles for all, build horizontal ties, create cultural institutions and ensure efficient management. The directions of development of national identity are formulated: established ethnic culture and traditions, supplemented by economic identifiers, developing joint management practices; transform existing and create new cultural practices that provide economic identity, mechanisms of collective economic interaction and models of rational collective choice; to promote the understanding that the culture of life and security ensures the development of the people and the state. Modern culture of security of the people and development of the state should be formed taking into account modern life practices, scientific and technical progress.