Volatility is one of the most characteristic features of contemporary security. The level of threats increases or decreases, completely new phenomena appear and quickly disturb the global balance and threaten the durability of security systems.

Bernard Wis´niewski is the Director of the Centre for Research Methodology in Security Sciences at the WSB University in Da?browa Górnicza. He specializes in the following issues: theory and methodology of security, security management, national defence, and internal security of the state. Paulina Polko is an associate professor at the WSB University in Da?browa Górnicza (Faculty of Applied Sciences) and the head of the Security Studies Department. Her research interests focus on securitization, security policy and new categories of security.

Bernard Wi?niewski/Pawe? Lubiewski: Security Identification Criteria – Paulina Polko/Karol Kujawa: Constructing Security: Securitisation, Riskification and Desecuritisation – Robert Socha/Andrzej Czupry?ski: Contemporary Threat Perceptions – Paulina Polko/Bernard Wi?niewski: Risk Assessment in Security Studies – Juliusz Piwowarski: Security Culture: The Unification of the Concepts of Security and Culture – Arkadiusz Letkiewicz: Security Management – W?odzimierz Fehler: Information Resources as a Means of Security Policy in the Contemporary World . – Andrzej Wawrzusiszyn: Relations Between Migration and Security – Tomasz Safja?ski: The Effectiveness of Countering Cross-border Terrorism in the Framework of Global International Police Cooperation – Artur Michalak: The Contemporary Nature of Armed Conflicts – Karol Kujawa/Katarzyna Szczepa?ska-Woszczyna: The Idea of the European Army in the Security Policy of the European Union: Perspectives and Challenges – Andrzej Pieczywok: Education for Security in Europe: Selected Forms and Thematic Areas – Conclusions