Theoretical and Methodological Foundations of the Research Modernization Processes in Traditional Societies as an Integral Part of Ensuring National Security

Purpose: The purpose of the chapter is to identify main possibilities of modernization theory in the study of traditional societies as an integral part of ensuring national security. Design/methodology/approach: The research uses the methods of modernization theory, conceptual analysis of the consideration of complex dynamic systems, and the general theory of national security at federal, regional and municipal levels. The modernization approach creates prerequisites for comparing different variants of the transition of ethnic societies from traditional to modernity; it assumes a scheme of historical development in the form of a movement from primitive to more complex structures of social existence. Findings: The possibility of using the existing connection between the general theory of national security and the concept of modernization allowed us to reveal mechanisms of complex state influence at the transition stage of integration of traditional societies into industrial society as an integral part of ensuring national security. The integration process is deeply and comprehensively manifested as a factor of civilizational character. Originality/value: In the structure of historical knowledge, the scientific novelty of the research consists in a fundamentally new formulation of the reinterpretation of modernization processes in traditional societies as an integral part of ensuring national security, which allows us to better understand its nature and research methods.