This article addresses a very specific challenge the world and security institutions, notably those having as mission to provide intelligence, must currently face: their adaptation to a present and future conceptualized differently from the old Cold War worldview or from the following “Davos paradigm” and incorporating real life threats and dangers perceived as new.

The institutional factor has determined the structure of the publication: it links selected global and regional issues with some aspects of Poland’s security. Their chapters illustrate the research profile of the Department and individual interests of each author. The contributors belong in the Department of National Security of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland ().

This collected volume is a modest attempt to delve into some aspects of security which drew attention of the authors in the year 2018. Any plausible and reasonable response to those problems, challenges and dilemmas requires an insight into contemporary political, economic, social and cultural phenomena at national and international levels. Domestic instability, regional conflicts and global tensions reflect deep, structural security problems. Challenges, risks and threats mushrooming across the regions and continents evoke feelings of discomfort, uncertainty, and anxiety. Today’s world is increasingly preoccupied with the state of its security.

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