Cultural security is a concept that appeared relatively recently, but the issues within its scope – protection of identity and protection of cultural heritage – have accompanied humans almost since the dawn of time. In this monograph, an attempt is made to analyse cultural security taking into account various research perspectives and showing its multifaceted nature. This volume also constitutes a collection of case studies that focuses on the analysis of the state as the basic subject of cultural security. The authors attempted to define cultural security and the approach to it from various, often very different, research perspectives.

Elz?bieta Szyszlak, PhD with habilitation in Political Sciences, is Associate Professor at the University of Wroc?aw, employed at the Institute of International Studies. Rafa? Wis´niewski is Associate Professor at the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyn´ski University in Warsaw. He specializes in the sociology of culture and intercultural communication. Rados?aw Zenderowski is full professor at Cardinal Stefan Wyszyn´ski University in Warsaw. He is also the Head of Chair of International Relations and European Studies, and Director of the Institute of Political Science and Public Administration.