The Perception of Security Threats in Lithuania: A Human Security Perspective

Diana Janušauskienė

doi:10.18778/1733-8077.15.2.12

Authors

Diana Janušauskienė Institute of Sociology, Lithuanian Social Research Centre, Lithuania

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18778/1733-8077.15.2.12

Keywords:

Subjective Security, Security Threats, Lithuania, Qualitative Interviews

Abstract

This article presents original research concerning subjective security and the perception of security threats in Lithuania. It is based on an analysis of data collected during qualitative interviews conducted in 2016 within the framework of a project titled Subjective Security in Volatile Geopolitical Context: Traits, Factors, and Individual Strategies. The investigation resides upon individual-based human security theory, and it addresses the threats that individuals consider to be important, as well as the ways in which various perceptions of security form within society.

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Author Biography

Diana Janušauskienė, Institute of Sociology, Lithuanian Social Research Centre, Lithuania

Dr. Diana Janušauskienė, a political sociologist, is currently a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Sociology of the Lithuanian Social Research Centre. Her main research interests are democratization, ethnicity, gender, and subjective security. She has over 25 publications in English, Lithuanian, and Polish, including Post-Communist Democratisation in Lithuania: Elites, Parties, and Youth Political Organisations (2011), Political Transformation and Changing Identities in Central and Eastern Europe (2008), and Values and Ideologies in Central Eastern Europe (in print), the latter two co-edited with Andrew Blasko. She has also contributed the chapter “The Metamorphosis of the Communist Party of Lithuania” to Communist Successor Parties in Central and Eastern Europe (2002), edited by A. Bozóki and J. T. Ishiyama. Dr. Janušauskienė’s most recent research has focused on subjective security and discrimination.

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