THE USE OF COMPLEXITY IN SOCIETAL SECURITY STUDIES
THE USE OF COMPLEXITY IN SOCIETAL SECURITY STUDIES

Summary/Abstract: Societal security, as developed by the Copenhagen School of Security, is an extremely important area of the broadercontemporary security concept which, in addition to military issues, also takes into account a number of other threats comingfrom the fields such as political, economic, societal or environmental ones. In the study of contemporary societal security, anumber of concepts specific to the theory of complex systems, such as complexity, self-organization, the threshold of chaos,etc., have been borrowed, substantially enriching the hermeneutics of security discourse on the basis of non-mechanisticinterpretations of social systems. This article aims to show that in the study of societal security the use of tools specific to thestudy of modern complex systems has produced quite interesting results, which could give a new meaning to the research inthis field. At the same time, the paper presents some conclusions regarding the methodology of analysis specific to the scienceof complexity applicable to the field of societal security.

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