THE PRACTICE OF LEADER STATES IN ENSURING NATIONAL SECURITY IN THE ENERGY SECTOR

Abstract

The article studies the practice of leader states in ensuring national security in the energy sector through the lens of public administration mechanisms with an additional complex analysis of the problem in light of the energy security of a state.The author carries out an analysis of theoretical and professional grounds for security understanding of the imperative of national energy security of the leader states in the context of examining the meta-system of the country’s national security.The study thoroughly examines the conceptual understanding and essence of the states’ national-level energy security and outlines risks and threats to the energy systems of leader states in the conditions of constant changes in functionality. The author emphasizes the necessity to prepare grounds for the concept of theoretical and practical basis of implementing the dynamic and adaptive mechanism to ensure energy security amid the global transformational processes and redistribution of the world’s political influences between hegemon states. The study identifies the need to establish interstate connections in the processes of international cooperation and exchange of experience in supporting each state’s national energy security.This work illustrates a range of countries, which, according to the rates of energy and fuel production and consumption, are leader states (according to their location) in ensuring state security in the energy sector. The World Energy Trilemma-2023 rates are considered, which helps to objectively demonstrate the accomplishments of the progressive national energy sectors of leader states on the basis of information, analyzed within the World Energy Council.The study explores various approaches and principles of realization of security strategic programs and the staples of energy security policies of the key leader states in different parts of the world (namely Europe, America and Asia) and of the hegemon states who have global energy impact on the world, on the example of the European Union, the United States of America and the People’s Republic of China.The scientific novelty of the study lies in illustrating the basis of administrative factors (components) of building the effective policy of a leader state’s own national energy security in the conditions of ongoing transformational processes of establishing the new energy system of global interstate cooperation. Furthermore, the author provides a proper definition for the term “leader state in the energy sector of national lever security” (a country that has an efficient and sustainable balanced energy system with an elaborate security management mechanism that provides an unlimited field of action at the global level for interstate energy cooperation through the instruments of official and secret diplomacy to defend, push and promote the national interests of the state's energy policy in the spheres of interests of other countries, which in the final analysis is represented by its own world hegemony in the energy sector).