Bezpieczeństwo w rzeczywistości ponowoczesnej
Security in the Post-Modern World

Summary/Abstract: Changes that are taking place in the contemporary post-modern world also concern nation states. They include the area of sovereignty, in both the internal and external dimension, as well as the scope of power and role of the state. The interdependence of states is growing and, at the same time, the capability of state governments to control economic, social and even political processes is becoming more and more limited. The need for security remains the fundamental part of the collective interest of any community and the basic role of the state. This function cannot be fulfilled by any supranational or international institution, no matter how effective it is. Since the beginning of the 1990s we can observe a process of movement of the centre of state government upwards, toward supranational structures, as well as downwards, to the level of regional and local communities. Undoubtedly, this poses a challenge for the autonomy of the state, statehood and nationality. Nowadays, sovereignty consists rather in the right of the sovereign to decide about the way in which the power coming from him/her is executed, as well as if, and to what extent, it is executed in his/her interest.This has a key significance in the context of the future, in which the ultimate socioeconomic configuration may by created not by states, but by regions. A fundamental change in the understanding and defining of security that has taken place contemporarily consists in shifting the focus of subjective security from the nation state to the human being (human security), who has become the basic subject of security.

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