General information
Code: P5-0206
Period: 1.1.2014 - 31.12.2017
Range on year: 1.98 FTE | 2016
Project leader at FDV: prof.dr. Marjan Malešič
Research activity: Social sciences
Abstract
The basic premise for the work of the research team is represented by key theoretical paradigms dealing with the questions of security in the contemporary world, with emphasis on the theories that are critical to traditional approaches to security, that warn of unconventional forms of threats to security, and emphasize the individual and different social groups as the key referent objects of security. The research will also take into consideration the context of socio-economic and financial crisis in the world, which undoubtedly exacerbates the existing security problems and influences on the appearance of the new ones, while at the same time limiting the possibilities of states and international community to deal with them adequately, as the available resources are already scarce due to the mentioned crisis and its consequences. The team will operate on the basis of interdisciplinarity, and thus cooperate with experts and researchers from other research institutions at home and abroad. The team will formulate adjustable modules for dealing with the following thematic sets: global, regional, national security vs. security of individuals and social groups; prevention of armed conflicts, conflict analysis and the role of international actors in the stopping of conflicts and in post-conflict reconstruction of states (security, economic, political, administrative, and value aspects); peace operations and missions as a form of security globalization – effectiveness and efficiency of international intervention, the influence of armed forces engagement in international operations and missions on the processes of their functional professionalization, the processes of leadership in multicultural environment; economic aspects of security, with emphasis on the economic warfare and economic sanctions as a means for achieving the foreign policy objectives and security interests, and on the analysis of defense expenditures; cognitive institutional analysis of contemporary complex crises, and crisis management; environmental security and the related energy security; information security and cyber space as the new strategic domain; fight against terrorism; transformation of defense policy and defense, in particular the military systems of contemporary states; ethical and legal aspects of the use of contemporary security technologies; security culture of young population in particular, and selected themes from the sociology of the military and the recent military history of Slovenia.
Research Organisation
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Researchers
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