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This article is dedicated to the examination of the economic-institutional problems and prerequisites for the reconstruction of the European military-industrial complex. During the consideration of this issue, the following tasks were set and addressed: – to find out the economic factors determining the ability of European economies to provide the Ukrainian army with a sufficient amount of weapons and ammunition; – to identify barriers to capital involvement in the military-industrial complex; – to study the institutional prerequisites for changing motivations for investing in the military-industrial complex. On one hand, the remilitarization of Europe appears inevitable due to the formation of an anti-Western axis of evil, consisting of Moscow, Beijing, and Tehran. On the other hand, remilitarization for formerly pacifist Europeans is not an easy matter. We believe that the problem of remilitarization has at least three aspects: price, investment, and civilization. If we were to depict the problem of European remilitarization as an iceberg, the price aspect would be the most superficial, obvious part of the problem, while the civilization aspect would be its foundation. Price aspect: This has manifested, in particular, in the rapid increase in procurement prices for weapons. The anomaly is that even with a fourfold increase in prices, which apparently promises manufacturers profits in the hundreds (!) of percent, demand saturation through increased supply does not occur. Investment aspect: It is evident in the relatively insufficient investment activity in the European military-industrial complex compared to what it should be. The issue lies in the unacceptably high risks of possible investment projects in the defense sector, namely, the risk of a decrease in demand for manufactured goods. Considering the normal profitability of production assets in developed countries, successful remilitarization could involve guarantees of extensive and stable state purchases of weapons and ammunition from producers for the next ten to fifteen years. Civilization aspect: Maintaining consistently high demand for military goods for one to two decades requires a fundamentally different approach from European societies and states to issues of war and peace than is currently the case. It turns out that for the remilitarization of Europe, a series of colonial wars is needed. Colonialism, in any of its manifestations, involves the institutionalization of inequality between Europeans and those outside Europe. Remilitarization means that the “flower generation,” the people who tried to “love, not war,” must acknowledge their defeat, and more than half a century of conscious rejection of making military violence a significant political instrument, which has always been reckless, is regarded as a terrible mistake that must not be repeated. European elites see and understand the consequences of this choice. Therefore, we can argue that the million shells for Ukraine cost Europeans significantly more than a few pitiful billion euros. It costs dreams of humanism, of a bright communist future, dreams of a time when the bright, rational, human will ultimately overcome all that is dark, primitive, and bestial.

It is substantiated that the modernization of the military-industrial and security complex is the main link in the innovative transformation of the national and regional economy in both the wartime and the post-war periods. Studies have shown that in the system of academic and sectoral domestic science, a significant potential for fundamental and applied research in the field of armaments, military equipment and security technologies is formed, which implies the basic determinant of innovative transformation of the national economy and the economy of individual regions through the modernization of the military-industrial and security complex. It is determined that the favorable prerequisites for the modernization of the military-industrial and security complex of Ukraine are: an extensive network of research and production institutions that specialized in the design of new types of weapons and military equipment; powerful research and engineering human resources of the military-industrial complex; availability of industrial capacities for the production of military products; sufficient resource base to ensure a full cycle of production of certain types of weapons and military equipment (availability of production of ferrous and non-ferrous metals, various types of electronics and optics products). It is found that the restoration of the relationship between the sphere of research and development of defense and security direction and the development of the production of weapons, military equipment and security technologies will ensure the renewal of the military-industrial and security complex on a new technical and technological basis, and this will contribute to the growth of domestic demand for domestic metal products, the transfer of advanced foreign defense and security technologies, the accelerated development of domestic electronics and other industries related to the military-industrial complex, and the development of digital technologies. It is determined that Ukraine enjoys the broad support of the coalition of Western countries, which creates favorable conditions for the transfer of modern foreign defense and security technologies of the latest generations, which will allow to establish the production of modern weapons and military equipment at domestic enterprises of the defense-industrial sector in the short term.

The financial security of an industrial enterprise in the era of digitalization with the use of information and analytical tools reflects the effectiveness of the formation, distribution and use of financial resources in the new conditions of the digital economy, which change approaches to the formation of the economic mechanism of the enterprise; influence the formation of information and analytical tools for assessing the level of financial security; are accompanied by the use of information technologies in business in order to increase profitability and competitiveness. Along with new opportunities for business, there are challenges related to ensuring the confidentiality of financial information and the preservation of data that is a commercial secret. These challenges were especially aggravated during the full-scale war, during which part of the industrial enterprises reoriented themselves to meet the needs of the military-industrial complex (hereinafter referred to as the MIC) and needed the appropriate identification of the information-analytical toolkit for assessing financial security. The purpose of the research is to analyze approaches to optimizing financial security in the era of digitalization using information and analytical tools. The object of the research is analytical approaches of objective economic diagnostics of indicators of financial security. The subject of the research is a system of current financial indicators of the activity of an industrial enterprise, which provide an integrated assessment of the level of financial security in the conditions of today's challenges. Research tasks: 1) justify the feasibility of applying a systemic approach to optimizing the financial security of an industrial enterprise, taking into account functional areas of economic activity; 2) prove that the rating method is basic for modeling integral assessments of the level of financial security; 3) to investigate the impact of the tax component of financial security on the sustainability of an industrial enterprise. The research methodology includes a systematic approach and formalization of complex structures - to study the financial security of an industrial enterprise as a system in the context of its integrative influence on the areas of economic activity; statistical - economic method and monitoring method - for evaluating financial security using financial indicators and their rating; methods of expert assessments, economic - mathematical modeling, tabular method - for the development of modes of operation of the enterprise in order to assess the level of financial security; abstract-logical method for theoretical generalizations, formation of conclusions based on the results of the conducted research and formulation of proposals for improvement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article formulates the author’s own conception of innovative transformation of the post-war economy of Ukraine for accelerated elimination of the consequences of the military invasion of the aggressor state on a global scale and modernization of the structural units of the national economy and regional economic complexes. It is substantiated that in the context of significant territorial heterogeneity of the sectoral structure of the economic complex, the choice of priorities for innovative transformation of the post-war economy should take into account the peculiarities of economic development of Ukraine’s regions. It is found that the determination of goal-setting for the innovative transformation of the post-war economy should include the identification of the main determinants (military, institutional-digital, resource-production and environmental, social, macro-cyclical and macro-fiscal, global), which currently determine the basic trends in the functioning of national and regional economic complexes. It is substantiated that the main principles of innovative transformation of the post-war economy of Ukraine and regional economic complexes are: 1) the principle of social responsibility; 2) the principle of dirigisme; 3) the principle of inclusiveness; 4) the principle of co-evolution; 5) the principle of convergence; 6) the principle of glocalization. It is proved that the defined set of basic principles for the implementation of transformation processes in the post-war period on an innovative basis determines the following main goals: 1) economic recovery and strengthening of economic self-sufficiency; 2) strengthening of the country’s defense capability and revival of the military-industrial complex; 3) building a welfare state; 4) clean environment. It is established that the main goals (goals of the first order) should be specified in the goals of the second order: territorial-sectoral, ecological-energetic, socio-demographic, and scientific-technical. It is substantiated that the determination of goal-setting for the innovative transformation of the post-war economy of Ukraine should fully take into account the regional specifics of production and infrastructure complex formation in order to ensure the most efficient use of the resource-production potential of territorial entities and the benefits and new opportunities resulting from the deepening of decentralization processes

It is substantiated that the modernization of the military-industrial and security complex is the main link in the innovative transformation of the national and regional economy in both the wartime and the post-war periods. Studies have shown that in the system of academic and sectoral domestic science, a significant potential for fundamental and applied research in the field of armaments, military equipment and security technologies is formed, which implies the basic determinant of innovative transformation of the national economy and the economy of individual regions through the modernization of the military-industrial and security complex. It is determined that the favorable prerequisites for the modernization of the military-industrial and security complex of Ukraine are: an extensive network of research and production institutions that specialized in the design of new types of weapons and military equipment; powerful research and engineering human resources of the military-industrial complex; availability of industrial capacities for the production of military products; sufficient resource base to ensure a full cycle of production of certain types of weapons and military equipment (availability of production of ferrous and non-ferrous metals, various types of electronics and optics products). It is found that the restoration of the relationship between the sphere of research and development of defense and security direction and the development of the production of weapons, military equipment and security technologies will ensure the renewal of the military-industrial and security complex on a new technical and technological basis, and this will contribute to the growth of domestic demand for domestic metal products, the transfer of advanced foreign defense and security technologies, the accelerated development of domestic electronics and other industries related to the military-industrial complex, and the development of digital technologies. It is determined that Ukraine enjoys the broad support of the coalition of Western countries, which creates favorable conditions for the transfer of modern foreign defense and security technologies of the latest generations, which will allow to establish the production of modern weapons and military equipment at domestic enterprises of the defense-industrial sector in the short term. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article formulates the author’s own conception of innovative transformation of the post-war economy of Ukraine for accelerated elimination of the consequences of the military invasion of the aggressor state on a global scale and modernization of the structural units of the national economy and regional economic complexes. It is substantiated that in the context of significant territorial heterogeneity of the sectoral structure of the economic complex, the choice of priorities for innovative transformation of the post-war economy should take into account the peculiarities of economic development of Ukraine’s regions. It is found that the determination of goal-setting for the innovative transformation of the post-war economy should include the identification of the main determinants (military, institutional-digital, resource-production and environmental, social, macro-cyclical and macro-fiscal, global), which currently determine the basic trends in the functioning of national and regional economic complexes. It is substantiated that the main principles of innovative transformation of the post-war economy of Ukraine and regional economic complexes are: 1) the principle of social responsibility; 2) the principle of dirigisme; 3) the principle of inclusiveness; 4) the principle of co-evolution; 5) the principle of convergence; 6) the principle of glocalization. It is proved that the defined set of basic principles for the implementation of transformation processes in the post-war period on an innovative basis determines the following main goals: 1) economic recovery and strengthening of economic self-sufficiency; 2) strengthening of the country’s defense capability and revival of the military-industrial complex; 3) building a welfare state; 4) clean environment. It is established that the main goals (goals of the first order) should be specified in the goals of the second order: territorial-sectoral, ecological-energetic, socio-demographic, and scientific-technical. It is substantiated that the determination of goal-setting for the innovative transformation of the post-war economy of Ukraine should fully take into account the regional specifics of production and infrastructure complex formation in order to ensure the most efficient use of the resource-production potential of territorial entities and the benefits and new opportunities resulting from the deepening of decentralization processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article considers one of the possible approaches to the analysis of the military-industrial complex of Ukraine from the point of view of a systematic approach. The definition of the military-industrial complex in terms of a systematic approach is given, which makes it possible to justify the need to use the holistic paradigm and synergetic approach to study its condition and development prospects. The most common synergistic effects of economic systems, which are fully inherent in the military-industrial complex of Ukraine and their impact on the processes in the military-industrial complex, are considered. The role of endogenous and exogenous factors of the economic system in the construction of the phase space and phase portrait of the system is shown. The importance of the influence of exogenous factors (control parameters) on the behavior of the economic system is emphasized. The sequence of actions using the synergistic approach to the study of economic systems is determined.