30 years of independence of the Republic of Moldova proved to be a period when the society in general and the political class in particular did not become aware that the national security fi eld is very important for the development of all vital sectors of a state in transition from a totalitarian political regime to a democratic one. Moldovan national security building, based on the permanent neutrality status over the three decades, has proved to be a construction vulnerable to risks and threats resulting from the impact of achieving the geopolitical interests of the great powers over the buffer-zone where it is positioned. The need to implement some sectorial reforms in the national security fi eld was largely determined by the commitments undertaken by the Republic of Moldova internationally and regionally, and not by the idea of indispensability to resize the paradigm of functioning and modernisation of the institutional capacities of the national defence and security system. The risks and threats that jeopardise the national security components are determined to a large extent by the external factor which calls for an approach in geopolitical terms. The perspective to reinforce national security resilience will be ensured by the place the Republic of Moldova is going to have within the arrangements of the geopolitical architecture of the regional security that would also contribute fi nally to the change of the status of the Republic of Moldova from the consumer into the regional security provider.