Gdańsk, Poland

State Security
(field of studies: National Security)

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⇑State Security at UG

Field of studies: National Security
Language: PolishStudies in Polish
Subject area: security services
Kind of studies: full-time studies
University website: en.ug.edu.pl

⇑Test: Is State Security the right fit for you?

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10 questions · two minutes

1. You receive scattered reports about unusual activity near a power plant. How do you approach them?

2. How do you feel about studying the legal framework of security – constitutional law, emergency powers, oversight of security services?

3. In a crisis simulation, a flood cuts off a region while disinformation spreads online. Which role would you take?

4. How do you feel about analysing hybrid threats – cyber attacks, disinformation campaigns, economic pressure?

5. You’re asked to write a policy brief on improving the protection of energy supplies. How do you react?

6. Which statement best describes your attitude to confidential information?

7. How do you feel about balancing civil liberties against security needs, for example in surveillance?

8. The programme is taught in English, and you’ll work on case studies with students from many countries. How do you see that?

9. Which future role appeals to you most?

10. What motivates you most to pursue a Master’s degree in State Security?

⇑Definitions and quotes

Security
Security is freedom from, or resilience against, potential harm (or other unwanted coercive change) from external forces. Beneficiaries (technically referents) of security may be persons and social groups, objects and institutions, ecosystems, and any other entity or phenomenon vulnerable to unwanted change by its environment.
State
We have entered a time of global transition marked by uniquely contradictory trends. Regional and continental associations of States are evolving ways to deepen cooperation and ease some of the contentious characteristics of sovereign and nationalistic rivalries. National boundaries are blurred by advanced communications and global commerce, and by the decisions of States to yield some sovereign prerogatives to larger, common political associations. At the same time, however, fierce new assertions of nationalism and sovereignty spring up, and the cohesion of States is threatened by brutal ethnic, religious, social, cultural or linguistic strife. Social peace is challenged on the one hand by new assertions of discrimination and exclusion and, on the other, by acts of terrorism seeking to undermine evolution and change through democratic means.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali, An Agenda for Peace: Preventive diplomacy, peacemaking and peace-keeping (1992)
State
The complex notion of the ‘provisional’ character of the State is the reason why the attitude of the first Christians toward the State is not unitary, but rather appears to be contradictory. I emphasize, that it appears to be so. We need only mention Romans 13:1, ‘Let every man be subject to the powers that be ... ,’ alongside Revelation 13: the State as the beast from the abyss.
Oscar Cullmann, The State in the New Testament.
Security
From that point, my universe went on crumbling; new cracks appeared all the time. I could see that the pleasant securities of childhood, all of those warm little human emotions, all of those trivial aims and purposes that we allow to rule our lives, were an illusion. We were like sheep munching grass, unaware that the butcher's lorry is already on its way. I got used to living with a deep, underlying feeling of uncertainty that no one around me seemed to share. It was rather like living on death row.
Colin Wilson in Alien Dawn, pp. 12-13 (1998)

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