ABSTRACT
The main objective of this part of the study is to examine and discuss issues related to state security under conditions of a pandemic in the dimension of state security strategy, the effectiveness of state and self-government administration, as well as challenges related to security in the digital space. The results of the study lead to the conclusion that these challenges have a strategic dimension because the pandemic crisis has become an invisible threat to humanity and a fundamental challenge to the security of individual societies and states. In the next section, answers were sought to questions about the role of the central and self-government administrations in combating the pandemic and its effects, and the effectiveness of both types of administration. It is clear that the pandemic has generated new challenges for administrative structures, in terms of both identifying threats, eliminating risks for the population, and introducing solutions for protecting the population's health. The next subsection characterises the most important issues related to the challenges faced by the state and stemming from new phenomena that emerged in cyberspace in the era of the pandemic. The pandemic revealed the scale of potential and actual threats accompanying cyberspace.
