On June 17, the Valdai Discussion Club held a roundtable in Saint Petersburg titled “Homo Perplexus: How to Stop Fearing and Learn to Love Change”. The roundtable initiated a broader discussion planned by the organisers on the origins and methods of ensuring security in the modern world – first, through the individual human experience. The second part, on how individual states can ensure internal stability as the main prerequisite for their own security, was discussed the next day during the Valdai Club session at the SPIEF site.