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Original article

Index UDK: 351

Year, Volume, Number:
2025, Vol. 13, № 3 (51)

Pages: 82-92

Clarification of the conceptual and categorial apparatus of national-state identity in the context of researching issues of ensuring public safety

Inara D. Yagofarova
Candidate of Law, Associate Professor, Senior Researcher, Security Problems Studies Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 21B Garibaldi street, Moscow, 117335; Associate Professor of the Department of Competition Law and Antitrust Regulation, Ural State University of Economics, 62 8 Marta street, Yekaterinburg, 620144, Russia, vaina3@yandex.ru
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8508-7920

EDN: YGILHP
DOI: 10.21685/2307-9525-2025-13-3-9

Category: PUBLIC LEGAL (STATE LEGAL) SCIENCES

Financing: the study was carried out as part of the implementation of the state task "Comprehensive study of public security issues as a strategic priority of the national security of the Russian Federation" (FFFZ-2025-0001).

For citation:
Yagofarova I.D. Clarification of the conceptual and categorial apparatus of national-state identity in the context of researching issues of ensuring public safety. Elektronnyy nauchnyy zhurnal "Nauka. Obshchestvo. Gosudarstvo" = Electronic scientific journal "Science. Society. State". 2025;13(3):82–92. (In Russ.). doi:10.21685/2307-9525-2025-13-3-9

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Received: 28.04.2025

Accepted: 30.07.2025
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Abstract
Background. Today, the problem of ensuring public safety is one of the priority areas of scientific research. In this regard, there is an objective need to improve methodological approaches and theoretical and legal tools in the study of public safety issues. Conducting a comprehensive analysis of the mechanism for ensuring public safety makes it possible to deepen knowledge in the field of developing conceptual models and methods of organizing the public safety system. However, the vast majority of researchers limit themselves to describing only the individual components of this mechanism or focus exclusively on the problems of implementing legal response measures, while the issue of forming an integrated conceptual and categorical framework remains insufficiently studied and requires additional scientific understanding. As practice shows, research will only be systematic when universal categories of a theoretical order are used. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to clarify the basic categories of national and state identity in the context of the study of public security issues. Materials and methods. The implementation of the tasks set was carried out on the basis of the theoretical work of researchers in the field of philosophy, sociology, and jurisprudence engaged in the creation of theoretical constructions of the basic concepts of national statehood. The methodological base of the study was represented mainly by systemic, structural and functional methods, which allowed us to consider the concepts under study in their structural content and understand their essential features. Results. The result of the study was the clarification of generally accepted categories of a state-legal nature necessary for further research in the field of public safety. Conclusions. The creation of updated formulations of basic concepts provides an opportunity to take a different look at their functional potential and its applicability in the study of public safety issues. Among other things, this acts as a catalyst for the formation of an improved categorical and conceptual framework necessary for the implementation of subsequent scientific research.

Keywords
public safety, nation, state, ethnicity, country, society

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