DEFINITION AND SIGNIFICANCE OF STATE BORDER SECURITY

Abstract

This scientific Article is devoted to the problems of establishing the essence and content of thedefinition of “state border security”, which is a very complicated and complex legal category. It is noted that thestate border and its security without doubts appears and continues to remain that component playing an importantrole for the territorial integrity and sovereignty of any State. The proper level of law and order and security at thestate border is achieved by various legal means. It is established that in modern conditions the term “border security”has become quite widespread and is actively used by both Ukrainian and foreign researchers. It is one of the criteriafor restricting the constitutional rights and freedoms of a human being and a citizen.Border security has its own species specificity, aimed at ensuring state sovereignty and territorial integrityof a State, protection of national interests in the border area, which should be considered as the main goal ofborder security. In view of this, it is emphasized that the problem of ensuring border security plays crucial role inestablishment of statehood, sovereignty and territorial integrity that are the main aspirations of a separate individualand society and State, as well as the appropriate purpose of such security.Based on the analysis of doctrinal origins and regulations in the relevant field, it is proposed to understand thestate border security as a balanced status of protection of state sovereignty, territorial integrity, as well as protectedby state border legislation interests of a human being, society and State in the border sphere. This definition makesit possible to reveal the purpose, objectives and object of activities aimed at ensuring border security, as well as tooutline further directions of scientific research in this area.