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DOI: Prospects for Forming A New Model of Cooperation Between the State and Civil Society in The Security Sphere
Temur Maratovich Isamukhamedov , Researcher, Tashkent State University of Oriental Studies, UzbekistanAbstract
This article examines the prospects for forming a new model of cooperation between the state and civil society in the security sphere in the context of contemporary Uzbekistan. The study rests on the premise that the categories of state security, national security, and societal security, although frequently conflated in administrative and public discourse, designate distinct referent objects and therefore presuppose different configurations of the relationship between governmental institutions and civil society. The article delineates these categories, establishes their interrelation, and considers how the normative framework consolidated under the New Uzbekistan reforms reconfigures the participation of civil society institutions in the provision of security. The renewed Constitution, the Uzbekistan-2030 Strategy, the successive concepts of civil society development, and the legislation governing non-governmental non-commercial organizations are read as elements of a single institutional design. It is argued that the emerging model marks a transition from a state-centric understanding of security, in which civil society figures predominantly as an object of protection, toward a co-productive arrangement in which civil society institutions operate as partners in the identification of threats, the prevention of social risks, and the maintenance of public order. The analysis specifies the institutional preconditions of this transition, examines its functional domains, and assesses the constraints that bear upon its consolidation, treating these constraints as tasks of institutional maturation rather than as structural impediments.
Keywords
State security, national security, societal security
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