State Security

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⇑State Security at UwS

Field of studies: National Security

Language: English Studies in English

Subject area: security services

Kind of studies: full-time studies

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University website: www.uws.edu.pl/en/

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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.

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State

They worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast, and who can fight against it?”

John of Patmos, Apocalypse 13:4

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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.

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In the mean time, what is the point of repeating the old tale as to what the state is becoming? Once the sour critical analysis of sometime ago (Herbert Marcuse: One-Dimensional Man), the dark negative utopias (Aldous Huxley, George Orwell) and the protest cries (May 68) are forgotten, and with a near lack of the slightest sense of resistance in civil society, the cobweb of power spins peacefully over our heads, all over the place. Even the dressing room.

Joxe Azurmendi, Demokratak eta biolentoak, (1997), p. 101.

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