Modern Understanding of Security: Basic Terminology

• Authors: Lech Chojnowski

Abstracts

EN

This article presents the basic terminology for contemporary security concepts. It defines the concept of security itself and related terms such as security as a need and value, subjective and objective security, security as a process, external and internal security, subjectand object-related dimension of security, security analysis levels, security categories: political, military, economic, cultural and identity-based, environmental and societal, as well as security opportunities, challenges and threats. The terminology presented in this article is a synthesis of the author’s reflections on theoretical foundations of security published in the monograph: Bezpieczeństwo. Zarys teorii (Security: A Theoretical Outline) published by the Academic Publishing House of the Pomeranian University in Słupsk.

Keywords

EN

levels of security analysis; object-related dimension of security; subject-related dimension of security; security sectors; threats to security

• Publisher: Wyższa Szkoła Bezpieczeństwa Publicznego i Indywidualnego “Apeiron” w Krakowie
• Journal: Security Dimensions: International & National Studies
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 24(24)
• Pages: 50-61

Contributors

author

Lech Chojnowski

Identifiers

Biblioteka Nauki

1832577