CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE RESILIENCE AS A DETERMINANT OF NATIONAL ECONOMIC STABILITY

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to investigate the conceptual and economic foundations of critical infrastructure resilience and to determine its role in ensuring national economic stability under conditions of hybrid threats, systemic uncertainty, and large-scale disruptions. The study focuses on the transformation of scientific approaches to infrastructure and critical infrastructure from traditional technical interpretations toward resilience-oriented and economic security frameworks. Particular attention is devoted to the relationship between critical infrastructure functioning, macroeconomic stability, economic continuity, and adaptive governance in the context of geopolitical instability, cyber threats, military conflicts, and technological disruptions. Methodology. The research is based on theoretical generalization, comparative analysis, semantic mapping, and systematization of scientific approaches to infrastructure and critical infrastructure. The methodological framework combines economic, institutional, and resilience-oriented approaches presented in contemporary scientific literature and international policy documents. Semantic analysis was used to identify dominant conceptual descriptors and trace the evolution of infrastructure discourse toward categories associated with security, resilience, continuity, and systemic stability. Results. The study demonstrates that critical infrastructure should be interpreted not only as a set of strategically important facilities and services but also as a complex adaptive system that ensures economic continuity, institutional stability, and national resilience. It was established that disruptions of critical infrastructure generate multidimensional macroeconomic consequences, including GDP decline, production interruptions, supply chain disruptions, investment reduction, inflationary pressures, business interruption risks, labor market instability, and increasing fiscal burden on the state. The research additionally confirms the growing importance of resilience-oriented governance models, adaptive regulation mechanisms, integrated risk management, and intersectoral coordination in the field of critical infrastructure protection. Practical implications. The findings may be applied in the development of national strategies for critical infrastructure protection, economic security policy, resilience-oriented governance, and post-crisis recovery planning. Value / originality. The scientific contribution of the study lies in the conceptualization of critical infrastructure resilience as a determinant of national economic stability and in the integration of economic security, resilience, and infrastructure governance approaches within a unified analytical framework.