Introduction: Protocols of modern war / Artur Gruszczak and Pawel Frankowski -- Part 1. Security transformations -- Strategic communication and contemporary European security / Michael O. Holenweger and Alexandre C. Hochuli -- Violence reconsidered: Towards post-modern warfare / Artur Gruszczak -- Private security and military companies and foreign fighters: possible interactions and potential practical implications / Iveta Hlouchova -- Uprisings, violence and the securitisation of inequality / Caroline Varin -- Complicating security: The multiple narratives emerging from the Ukraine crisis / Crister S. Garrett -- Part 2. Technology and ethics --Technology, development, global commons and international security: A global commons and interdisciplinary approach to global security / M Matheswaran -- Organisational networks in post-conflict disarmament efforts / Andrea Kathryn Talentino, Frederic S. Pearson and Isil Akbulut -- From MK-Ultra project to Human Terrain System: Militarisation of social sciences - ethical dilemmas and future prospects / Michal Pawinski -- Ethical dimension of post-heroic and autonomous modern armed conflicts / Blazej Sajduk -- European military and dual-use technology transfers to Russia: The impact on European and Transatlantic security / Simona R. Soare -- Part 3. Counterterrorism and cyber security -- Dilemmas of security and social justice: The Maoist insurgency in India / Veena Thadani -- Cyber security norms in the Euro-Atlantic region: NATO and the EU as norm entrepreneurs and norm diffusers / Joe Burton -- Cyberspace's ontological implications for national security / Dighton (Mac) Fiddner -- Conclusions: Protocols of war - dimensions and layers / Pawel Frankowski and Artur Gruszczak