The strategic level of ensuring the economic security of a region

Abstract

The relevance of the research topic is determined by the ever-growing importance of measures to overcome challenges and strategic threats to the economic security of regions. The problem of the study lies in the need to substantiate approaches to ensuring the economic security of a region at a strategic stage of its development. The work is aimed at substantiating the need to allocate a strategic level in activities to ensure the economic security of the region. The concept of the strategic level of ensuring the economic security of the region is clarified, recommendations are given on the organization of management of ensuring the economic security of the region at the strategic decision-making level. The levels of decision–making in the field of ensuring the economic security of the region are differentiated: strategic – at the level of the head of the subject of the Russian Federation and the highest legislative (representative) body of state power of the region; tactical – at the level of the regional government and specialized executive authorities of the financial and economic sector. It is recommended to base the activities on the justification of strategic directions for ensuring the economic security of the region on an analysis of opportunities and threats of the region, carried out at the stage of strategic planning of socio-economic development of the subject of the Russian Federation. It is proposed to institutionalize the activities on the development, adoption and implementation of the economic security strategy of the region to the mandatory level in each subject of the Russian Federation and provide this activit y with appropriate administrative and managerial resources within the structural divisions of the state authorities of the regions responsible for socio-economic development.