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The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020 led to an unprecedented crisis of global proportions that led to the blockade of vital components of social action on a scale that threatened international and national security. The pandemic has demonstrated the potential to evolve and generate a wider range of threats and has opened up essential questions of understanding the security and security organization of states. It is a threat to which, although recognized in most strategic security documents, the response of national and international security systems has not been successfully defined within the still dominant understanding of security based on traditional security studies. It has been shown that security systems are still determined by a traditional concept that does not fully identify the causes of threats and crises and their correlations, which increases uncertainty and negatively affects the normative and institutional capacity needed to respond effectively to crises. The paper is based on the hypothesis that the COVID-19 pandemic has prompted a security paradigm shift that challenges the scientific community and policy-makers to define new approaches and new methods of researching security phenomena and strategic modelling of security systems and crisis management nationally and globally. The paper will therefore analyse the impact of the crisis triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic on understanding security through an analysis of the threats it has generated and defining the correlation between theoretical knowledge and practical crisis management experiences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main goal of the paper is to point to opportunity of involving academic community as the key factor in production of knowledge for the main purpose of cooperation and democratic oversight of security intelligence services. Old fashion way of generating intelligence throught the bureauocratic mechanism will no longer be able to compete with network based production and dissemination of information and knowledge. Security phenomenons and their trends characterised by dinamics and complexity require interdiciplinary approach and raise an opportunity for cooperation between intelligence and security agencies and academic community. Both of these comunities have simillar caracteristics, resources, methodology and similar goal - to find answers and look for the truth. That could be useful for the purpose of national security and democracy if the differences and specific nature of both sides such as the relationship with the government and society, attitude towards through the secrecy and publicity are taken into account. The main purpose of this cooperation colud take a form of long term planning and identification of threats, better understanding of new security challenges, gaining public support, developing rare skills and management of agencies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The raise of individualism, the end of the Cold War, and the increasing role of non-state actors have caused international relations to transform into a much more complex system. This new system has created many communities which feel themselves to be victims. Such populations may abandon rational debate and retreat into "learned despair", only communicating through violence. Regional conflicts have spread, and this has in turn been exploited by the hegemonic powers as they seek to consolidate their positions. Many more conflicts are likely to result from the growth in world population, climate change, energy and water shortages. In this context, terrorist groups are likely to base their ideologies on the two most enduring elements of popular identity: religion and ethnicity. This paper also analyzes the term "global terrorism", and finds that what is called "global terrorism" is no different from earlier terrorism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]