Contemporary Understanding of Security and Its Contexts

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-3-631-91639-1
Verlag: Peter Lang

Buch, Englisch, 206 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 385 g

Reihe: Studies in politics, security and society

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Polko, Paulina

Wi¿niewski, Bernard

Weitere Mitwirkende

Sulowski, Stanislaw

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Bernard Wis´niewski is the Director of the Centre for Research Methodology in
Security Sciences at the WSB University in Da?browa Górnicza. He specializes in
the 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?browa
Górnicza (Faculty of Applied Sciences) and the head of the Security Studies
Department. Her research interests focus on securitization, security policy and
new categories of security.