SECURITY SCIENCE AS AN INDEPENDENT ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE: THEORETICAL, EPISTEMOLOGICAL AND PRAXEOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS

Radoslav Ivančík

Radoslav Ivančík Academy of the Police Force in Bratislava

Keywords: Security, security science, academic discipline, epistemology, interdisciplinarity, methodology, praxeology.

Abstract

Original Research Aricle

DOI: https://doi.org/10.37458/ssj.6.2.1

The article addresses security science's theoretical and epistemological foundation as an independent and interdisciplinary scientific discipline. The author responds to the growing need to overcome traditional state-centric and normative frameworks of security studies, presenting security science as a dynamically evolving field of science and knowledge with practical application. The article emphasizes the use of qualitative and quantitative scientific methods and the necessity of an interdisciplinary approach that connects knowledge from political science, sociology, law, information technology, and other related fields. The first part analyses the evolution of the security concept and highlights the need for its scientific grasp. The second part focuses on the epistemological and methodological starting points of security science, its subject of research, and the approach to security as both a process and a state. The third part presents arguments for its autonomy and its relationships with other sciences, emphasizing technological and informational dimensions. The fourth part discusses the praxeological dimension of security science and its use in strategic decision-making, crisis management, and education. The conclusion emphasizes the need for methodological standardization and further research in the examined area. Overall, the article represents a relevant contribution to the ongoing discourse on the formation of security science, and at the same time, a call for building a comprehensive and adaptive scientific framework for analysing security phenomena in a dynamically changing globalized, multipolar and fragmented world.

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