CSTO Policy to Protect the Information and Psychological Sphere of Collective Security
The relevance of this article is determined by the need to identify and concretize the challenges and threats to the common geostrategic space of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and the national and state interests of the Russian Federation. One of the underdeveloped aspects of modern political science is the question of the formation of the priorities of the CSTO policy to protect the information and psychological sphere of collective security. The purpose of the scientific article is to study the state of the policy of the Collective Security Treaty Organization in countering the challenges and threats of an information-psychological nature. The objectives of the study are: to clarify the relationship between the militarization of politics and the threat of world terrorism in a polycentric world, to analyze the origins and prerequisites for the use of the potential of modern militarism by terrorist organizations, to substantiate the objective and subjective conditions for the reproduction and dissemination of the policy of militarization in the polycentric world, to formulate priorities for combating combinations of militarization and terrorism. Methodology. To solve the goal and objectives of the research, we used historical, comparative, structural and functional methods. Results. The article provides the author's vision of the essence and content of the Collective Security Treaty Organization's policy in the information and psychological sphere. It is argued that the CSTO strategies to counter the challenges and threats to the humanitarian sector of collective security are currently not comprehensive. Priority in the doctrinal support of the organization's policy is given to countering threats of information technology origin. Conclusions. The need to take political and legal measures to counter challenges and threats of an informational and psychological nature, aimed at the mass political consciousness of the post-Soviet region, is pointed out. The main priorities can be the adjustment of the CSTO normative acts in the field of information security, the modernization of its structural organization and sphere of competence in order to transform the military-political union into a multifunctional international association of an integral type.