Contemporary security has expanded its meaning, content and structure in response to globalisation and the emergence of greatly improved world-wide communication. The protocols of modern warfare, including targeted killing, enhanced interrogations, mass electronic surveillance and the virtualisation of war have changed the moral landscape and brought diverse new interactions with politics, law, religion, ethics and technology.
This book addresses how and why the nature of security has changed and what this means for the security actors involved and the wider society. Offering a crossdisciplinary perspective on concepts, meanings and categories of security, the book brings together scholars and experts from a range of disciplines including political, military studies and security studies, political economy and international relations. Contributors reflect upon new communication methods, postmodern concepts of warfare, technological determinants and cultural preferences to provide new theoretical and analytical insights into a changing security environment and the protocols of war in the 21st century.
A useful text for scholars and students of security studies, international relations, global governance, international law and ethics, foreign policy, comparative studies and contemporary world history.
1 Introduction: Protocols of modern war PART I Security transformations
2 Strategic communication and contemporary European security 3 Violence
reconsidered: Towards post-modern warfare 4 Private security and military
companies and foreign fighters: possible interactions and potential practical
implications 5 Uprisings, violence and the securitisation of inequality 6
Complicating security: The multiple narratives emerging from the Ukraine
crisis PART II Technology and ethics 7 Technology, development, global
commons and international security: A global commons and interdisciplinary
approach to global security 8 Organisational networks in post-conflict
disarmament efforts 9 From MK-Ultra project to Human Terrain System:
Militarisation of social sciences - ethical dilemmas and future prospects 10
Ethical dimension of post-heroic and autonomous modern armed conflicts 11
European military and dual-use technology transfers to Russia: The impact on
European and Transatlantic security PART III Counterterrorism and cyber
security 12 Dilemmas of security and social justice: The Maoist insurgency in
India 13 Cyber security norms in the Euro-Atlantic region: NATO and the EU as
norm entrepreneurs and norm diffusers 14 Cyberspaces ontological
implications for national security 15 Conclusions: Protocols of war -
dimensions and layers
Artur Gruszczak is an associate professor of political science, chair of national security at the Department of International and Political Studies, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. He is also faculty member of the European Academy Online run by the Centre International de Formation Européenne in Berlin. His principal interests and research areas include: EU internal security, EU intelligence cooperation, Euro-Atlantic security, modern warfare theory. Recently he published Intelligence Security in the European Union, Building a Strategic Intelligence Community (Palgrave Macmillan 2016) and edited Euro-Atlantic Security Policy: Between NATO Summits in Newport and Warsaw (Institute of Strategic Studies in Krakow 2015).
Pawe Frankowski is an associate professor of international relations at the Institute of Political Science and International Relations, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. He was post-doctoral fellow at University of Iceland (2010-2011) and University of St. Gallen (2011-2012). He was also a 2008 US State Department Fellow, SCIEX 2012 Fellow and 2015 Salzburg Global Seminar Fellow. His current research interests include: outer space security, social standards in free tree agreements, and regional integration schemes in Africa.
