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1 Eur. J. Sec. Rsch. 1 (2016)

handle is hein.journals/eupnjfos1 and id is 1 raw text is: Eur J Secur Res (2016) 1:1-2 DOI 10.1007/s41 125-016-0006-0 CrossMark Ei! )|QRTxALi Editorial Christopher Murphy' Received: 22 February 2016/Accepted: 23 February 2016 © Springer International Publishing 2016 Since the end of the Cold War, societal security has emerged as a new and, at times, highly contested concept of political and interdisciplinary research. At its core, societal security research seeks to determine and understand the ability of societies to endure and prosper against a backdrop of ever-changing conditions, challenges, and threats. To this end, societal security research merges a range of considerations on risk and security from economic, political, ecological, social, legal, technolog- ical, and engineering perspectives. With an emphasis on the interdisciplinary efforts of all the humanities and technological sciences, the European Journalfor Security Research aims to provide a comprehensive platform to discuss a wide-range of security research topics. Such topics include, but are certainly not limited to, the inability of new security technologies to deliver definitive solutions, the phenomena of increased securiti- zation, the epistemological, political, legal, and media framing of safety production and the disruptive potential of new technologies. By publishing original articles from diverse disciplinary backgrounds, the European Journal for Security Research offers a uniquely European forum for debate on social security research developments and how they are transforming our world. In keeping with this multi-disciplinary spirit, the inaugural issue of the European Journalfor Security Research contains articles from the fields of engineering, social sciences, and law. Klaus Thoma, Benjamin Scharte, Daniel Hiller, and Tobias Leismann begin the issue with an article on the ability of Resilience Engineering to overcome unexpected events and enable societies to be better prepared for their ® Christopher Murphy c.murphy@mpicc.de Department of Criminology, Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, Freiburg, Germany Springer