Аналітичні інструменти для оцінки стану міжнародного безпекового середовища: стратегічні огляди, глобальні індекси та критерії оцінки

The article is focused on the current issue of researching the international security environment. The russian–Ukrainian war has caused fundamental changes in the international security system and made international actors not only acknowledge the fact of war in Eastern Europe but also change their approaches to ensuring security in the international environment. Increasingly, countries in the Euro–Atlantic security space have begun to describe the category under study – the international security environment – as unstable and fraught with threats and challenges. Meanwhile, the absence of a definition for this concept and the elements considered in its assessment in the security strategies and defense reviews of countries, particularly Ukraine, makes it necessary to conduct further research in this area. Therefore, the article presents the results of a review of key defense planning documents from countries within the Euro–Atlantic security system. This analysis enabled us to identify the key elements to consider when evaluating the state of the international security environment. The article also considers other potential approaches to assessing the studied category, justifying the use of global empirical indicators, expert assessments, and SWOT analysis. The necessity of a scientific understanding of the concept of «international security environment» and the criteria for its assessment, with a view to its further integration into the Ukrainian national security sphere, is substantiated.