Contemporary Understanding of Security and Its Contexts

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.

Autorentext

Bernard Wis niewski is the Director of the Centre for Research Methodology in
Security Sciences at the WSB University in Däbrowa 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 Däbrowa
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.

Inhalt
Bernard Winiewski/Pawe Lubiewski: Security Identification Criteria Paulina Polko/Karol Kujawa: Constructing Security: Securitisation, Riskification and Desecuritisation Robert Socha/Andrzej Czupryski: Contemporary Threat Perceptions Paulina Polko/Bernard Winiewski: Risk Assessment in Security Studies Juliusz Piwowarski: Security Culture: The Unification of the Concepts of Security and Culture Arkadiusz Letkiewicz: Security Management Wodzimierz Fehler: Information Resources as a Means of Security Policy in the
Contemporary World . Andrzej Wawrzusiszyn: Relations Between Migration and Security Tomasz Safjaski: 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 Szczepaska-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