The concept of legal equality of states and the social force of law in the context of double standards diplomacy

The paper is devoted to highlighting the key issues of the cover theme of the issue of the journal “Legal Concept = Pravovaya paradigma” entitled “Law as a key regulator of ensuring sovereign identity, unity and security of the state”. The main purpose of the paper is the study and analysis of the scientific papers that have made up the heading “The cover theme of the issue” for the guidance of the journal’s reader in a comprehensive collective intersectoral research and the outline of the range of theoretical and legal, and law enforcement issues that determined its concept and title. The author substantiates the relevance of studying the category of state sovereignty both in theoretical and practical aspects, refracted through the prism of objective and subjective factors of modern reality, such as: globalization, the aggravation of issues of geopolitics and national security, the sanctions policy of the West as a conscious long-term strategy of economic and personal restrictive measures against Russia, as well as the need to help forward Industry 4.0 on a growth trajectory and accelerated recovery of industry and import substitution due to the Coronavirus Pandemic in 2020-2021. The reader’s attention is focused on the key elements of the structure of the theoretical and practical concept of national security - technological, natural, humanitarian, social, economic and military-political security, without which it is impossible to ensure state sovereignty and the realization of sovereign rights of the state. Lastly, it is concluded that the state sovereignty should be ensured by the unity of national, regional and international security.