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 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.