Contemporary Understanding of Security and Its Contexts

Stanislaw Sulowski

ISBN 10: 3631916396 / ISBN 13: 9783631916391

Published by Peter Lang, 2024

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Contemporary Understanding of Security and Its Contexts
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3631916396
• ISBN 13: 9783631916391
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 210W x 148H x 18D millimeters 210 millimeters width by 148 millimeters height by 18 millimeters depth
• Weight: 385 grams

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Synopsis

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.

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.