QUO VADIS HUMANITY? A VIEW OF SOME CURRENT  GLOBAL SECURITY THREATS AND CHALLENGES

Radoslav  Ivančík; Rastislav  Kazansky

Radoslav Ivančík Department of Management and Information Science, Academy of the Police Force in Bratislava, Slovakia
Rastislav Kazansky Department of Security Studies, Faculty of Political Sciences and International Relations, Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia

Keywords: Human society, security, global security threats and challenges.

Abstract

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DOI: 10.37458/ssj.4.1.5

Human society is constantly changing and evolving. It changes and develops as a whole; just as individual areas of society change and develop, too. As the new millennium began to unfold, one of the most dynamically changing and developing areas of human society is the area of security. It was transformed in a significant way after the end of the Cold War and the end of the bipolar division of the world, when there were fundamental changes in the global and regional security environment. It is also very significantly influenced by increasingly deepening globalization, which brings not only many positives, but also many negatives, which appear mainly in the form of new asymmetric security threats and challenges. That is also why the authors in their article, using relevant methods of interdisciplinary scientific research, deal with selected significant global security threats and challenges that pose a danger to the entire human society.

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