An interdisciplinary reflection and research on contemporary security is driven by a whole variety of factors and variables which represent the critical components of the security field, as well as various elements which are supplementary yet prominent for the contemporary security environment. The Jagiellonian Interdisciplinary Security Conferences have aspired to actively cultivate the broad and rich area of security structures, processes and developments in various dimensions, exploring the multi-level architecture of complex security systems and offering fresh insights into fundamental aspects of contemporary security. The 4th Jagiellonian Interdisciplinary Security Conference (4JISC) takes up the challenge of interdisciplinarity in security studies from the perspective of great powers’ game which has exerted the strongest impact on the global security system in the past few years. The broadening of the security studies field by non-conventional factors, placing emphasis on global commons, soft and smart power, transversal processes, cross-border transfer, global circulation and distribution of key resources, must now be confronted with ‘’Empires striking back”, seeking to leverage their potential not only for their national interests, but for questioning the functionality of the global order and challenging the guardians of this order with assertive, aggressive and reclamatory aims and actions. The perennial interplay between peace and war takes on new shades in the present decade. The full-scale war in Ukraine, new phase of the Palestinian conflict, civil war in Syria, protracted instability in Iraq, tensions in the Sahel, in the Caucasus, and in Central America, in addition to terrorist threats, uncontrolled and instrumentalized migration, transnational organized crime, information warfare and nuclear weapons threat, epitomize the (in)security environment nowadays.

Z przyjemnością informujemy, że nakładem wydawnictwa Księgarnia Akademicka ukazała się monografia "Polskie studia wywiadowcze. Stan i perspektywy badań". Jej autorami są pracownicy Katedry Bezpieczeństwa Narodowego UJ: Artur Gruszczak i Arkadiusz Nyzio oraz naukowiec z Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu Arkadiusz Lewandowski.

The Department of National Security in cooperation with Future Democracy Lab, Research Excellence at Jagiellonian University cordially invite for the Guest Lecture by Dr Alina Nychyk on Ukraine’s Resilience to Russian Aggression: Prospects for Ukraine’s European Future.