SECURITY AS A DISCURSIVE PRACTICE: IDENTITY AND THE FORMATION OF THE DISCOURSE OF SOCIETAL SECURITY
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https://doi.org/10.17072/2218-1067-2024-1-135-144Keywords:
security; societal security; securitization; discourse; societal security dilemma; identity; international rela-tionsAbstract
The article examines the approaches to the definition of societal security in the frame of Copenhagen School theory, its adherents and critics, as well as the elements involved in the formation of societal security discourse. It is noted that societal security was initially identified by the Copenhagen School as a sector of state security, but gradually began to be considered as the security of communities, including those whose borders do not coincide with those of a state. Meanwhile, a number of approaches consider state security as part of societal security and note the societalization of other security sectors. The discourse of societal security is formed under the influence of the societal actors’ identities while constructing them, since there is a mutual definition of entities and boundaries of identities relative to each other. This distinction occurs in the securitization process, within which the referent security objects and threats are named. Securitization and the societal security discourse formation are carried out during the interaction of the securitizing actor (or agent) and the audience. Securitization and counter-securitization, while generating the dynamics of interaction between antagonistic identities, each of which seeks to strengthen itself relative to the other, thereby provoking its reciprocal strengthening, constitute a societal security dilemma.References
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