Contemporary Understanding of Security and Its Contexts: (59 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.

Table of Contents:
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 the Contemporary World . – Andrzej Wawrzusiszyn: Relations Between Migration and Security – Tomasz Safjański: 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 Szczepańska-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

About the Author :
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.