Kulturowy wymiar bezpieczeństwa we współczesnej Europie
The ‘Societal’ Dimension of Security in Contemporary Europe

Summary/Abstract: The end of the Cold War greatly reduced the military risk world wide and resulted in a search for new areas of interest for security sciences. Oneof the new trends, which originated in the Copenhagen Peace Research Institute, was the societal security, focused on the issue of safeguardingidentity of social groups – national, ethnic and religious. The concept developed by the Copenhagen school was later extended to other subjects with common identity, such as professional groups, economic classes orlocal communities. This articles presents the issue of the societal dimension of security in contemporary Europe. Its focus is on finding a universal definition of societal security, determining the subject of this kind of security and on analyzing the main threats for the societal dimension of security in Europe.

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