Geopolitics of the national security of the Republic of Moldova: between the neutrality status and NATO member state

The need to build and consolidate a new geopolitical paradigm to ensure the national security of the Republic of Moldova is determined by the Russian Federation’s triggering of the conventional active phase of the hybrid war against Ukraine, which has boosted the reconstitution processes of the geopolitical spheres of influence in the Eastern European region. The evolution of the regional geopolitical situation influenced the resize of the global geopolitical architecture of international security and the reconfiguration of the geopolitical conjuncture of the regional security environment, having a major impact on the reconceptualization of the geopolitical dimension of national security, the assurance of which is clearly geopolitical and depends on the role and place that the Republic of Moldova will occupy in the new regional geopolitical architecture in the Eastern Europe, which will underpin the construction of a new European security system. We consider that the new approach of ensuring national security from the geopolitical reflection perspective, in the context of the military aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, to strengthen its geopolitical status of permanent neutrality, thus preserving its geopolitical position of buffer state and satellite state of the Russian Federation in the field of national security by accepting its geopolitical sphere of influence or changing the geopolitical status of permanent neutrality, abandoning the buffer zone, joining the North-Atlantic Alliance and integrating into the Western geopolitical sphere of influence, is an important one for the future of the Republic of Moldova.