Del 59 - Studies in Politics, Security and Society

Contemporary Understanding of Security and Its Contexts

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

Av Paulina Polko, Bernard Wiśniewski, Bernard Wisniewski, Bernard Wi¿niewski

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Volatility is one of the most characteristic features of contemporary security.The level of threats increases or decreases, completely new phenomena appearand quickly disturb the global balance and threaten the durability of securitysystems. This dynamic nature of security verifies both the state and process, aswell as their understanding by researchers.The monograph refers to key aspects of the contemporary understanding ofsecurity, in its military, political, social, and informational context, as wellas other dimensions. It presents and analyzes the identification criteria anddeterminants of security and characterizes the nature of contemporary threatsand the dynamics of their changes. Armed conflicts, terrorism, migration,digital threats, loss of national identity, and populist use of security categoriesto justify the use of extraordinary measures to combat threats are among theselected areas discussed by the authors. The monograph also raises the issuesof cooperation for security, its management and education for security as a keyactivity to ensure it.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-06-28
Mått148 x 210 x 0 mm
Vikt342 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieStudies in Politics, Security and Society
Antal sidor206
FörlagPeter Lang AG
ISBN9783631916391

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Bernard Wis´niewski is the Director of the Centre for Research Methodology inSecurity Sciences at the WSB University in Da˛browa Górnicza. He specializes inthe following issues: theory and methodology of security, security management,national defence, and internal security of the state.Paulina Polko is an associate professor at the WSB University in Da˛browaGórnicza (Faculty of Applied Sciences) and the head of the Security StudiesDepartment. Her research interests focus on securitization, security policy andnew categories of security.

Bernard Wiśniewski/Paweł Lubiewski: Security Identification Criteria – Paulina Polko/Karol Kujawa: Constructing Security: Securitisation, Riskification and Desecuritisation – Robert Socha/Andrzej Czupryński: Contemporary Threat Perceptions – Paulina Polko/Bernard Wiśniewski: Risk Assessment in Security Studies – Juliusz Piwowarski: Security Culture: The Unification of the Concepts of Security and Culture – Arkadiusz Letkiewicz: Security Management – Włodzimierz Fehler: Information Resources as a Means of Security Policy in theContemporary World . – Andrzej Wawrzusiszyn: Relations Between Migration and Security – Tomasz Safjański: The Effectiveness of Countering Cross-border Terrorism in theFramework of Global International Police Cooperation – Artur Michalak: The Contemporary Nature of Armed Conflicts – Karol Kujawa/Katarzyna Szczepańska-Woszczyna: The Idea of the European Army in the Security Policy of the EuropeanUnion: Perspectives and Challenges – Andrzej Pieczywok: Education for Security in Europe: Selected Forms and Thematic Areas – Conclusions