{"product_id":"9783631916391","title":"Contemporary Understanding of Security and Its Contexts (Studies in Politics, Security and Society 59) (2024. 206 S. 210 mm)","description":"\u003cp\u003eVolatility is one of the most characteristic features of contemporary security.\n\u003cbr\u003eThe level of threats increases or decreases, completely new phenomena appear\n\u003cbr\u003eand quickly disturb the global balance and threaten the durability of security\n\u003cbr\u003esystems. Volatility is one of the most characteristic features of contemporary security.\n\u003cbr\u003eThe level of threats increases or decreases, completely new phenomena appear\n\u003cbr\u003eand quickly disturb the global balance and threaten the durability of security\n\u003cbr\u003esystems. This dynamic nature of security verifies both the state and process, as\n\u003cbr\u003ewell as their understanding by researchers.\n\u003cbr\u003eThe monograph refers to key aspects of the contemporary understanding of\n\u003cbr\u003esecurity, in its military, political, social, and informational context, as well\n\u003cbr\u003eas other dimensions. It presents and analyzes the identification criteria and\n\u003cbr\u003edeterminants of security and characterizes the nature of contemporary threats\n\u003cbr\u003eand the dynamics of their changes. Armed conflicts, terrorism, migration,\n\u003cbr\u003edigital threats, loss of national identity, and populist use of security categories\n\u003cbr\u003eto justify the use of extraordinary measures to combat threats are among the\n\u003cbr\u003eselected areas discussed by the authors. The monograph also raises the issues\n\u003cbr\u003eof cooperation for security, its management and education for security as a key\n\u003cbr\u003eactivity to ensure it. 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\n\u003cbr\u003eContemporary World . - Andrzej Wawrzusiszyn: Relations Between Migration and Security - Tomasz Safjanski: The Effectiveness of Countering Cross-border Terrorism in the\n\u003cbr\u003eFramework 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\n\u003cbr\u003eUnion: Perspectives and Challenges - Andrzej Pieczywok: Education for Security in Europe: Selected Forms and Thematic Areas - Conclusions Bernard Wis〓niewski is the Director of the Centre for Research Methodology in\n\u003cbr\u003eSecurity Sciences at the WSB University in Da browa Górnicza. He specializes in\n\u003cbr\u003ethe following issues: theory and methodology of security, security management,\n\u003cbr\u003enational defence, and internal security of the state.\n\u003cbr\u003ePaulina Polko is an associate professor at the WSB University in Da browa\n\u003cbr\u003eGórnicza (Faculty of Applied Sciences) and the head of the Security Studies\n\u003cbr\u003eDepartment. Her research interests focus on securitization, security policy and\n\u003cbr\u003enew categories of security.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Lang","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48857515786475,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":75.5,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9783631916391-1.jpg?v=1781724105","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9783631916391","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}