CONTEMPORARY PERCEPTIONS OF SECURITY | Security Forum
Published : 23-03-2026

CONTEMPORARY PERCEPTIONS OF SECURITY

Abstract

Security is perceived by various groups of theorists and practitioners in different
ways, and at the turn of the 20th and 21st century, security theory research gained
momentum. The concept of security has become important not only in the social,
natural or technical sciences, but also in social life, in international relations, and in
many research programmes and applications. The term security has systematically
expanded as a result of civilization progress to include hitherto unknown challenges
and threats and new means and ways of eliminating them. In the past, security was
based mainly on the preservation of the military capacity to defend the vital interests
of a given social group.
The multitude of definitions of security has led to the creation of a separate field of
study in the literature, known as securitology. It represents an individual field of human-
centred research and assumes that all actions of the human individual are directed
towards maintaining security.
Security is a separate field of research focusing on the human being and assumming
that all actions of the human individual are directed towards ensuring a sense of security.
The issue is multifaceted, and the discipline indicated is new, and has only begun
to be of interest since 2010.

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security, state, human being, values, science, politics, citizen



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Woźniak, Kamila. “CONTEMPORARY PERCEPTIONS OF SECURITY”. Security Forum, vol. 6, no. 1, Mar. 2026, https://ojs.wsb.edu.pl/index.php/sf/article/view/1872.

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