SELF-IDENTITY AS A CONSTITUTIVE ELEMENT OF INSECURITY
SELF-IDENTITY AS A CONSTITUTIVE ELEMENT OF INSECURITY

Summary/Abstract: A research intention with the possibility of providing a certain modelapproach within the framework of the analysis of the creation and percep-tion of the identity of an actor of international relations, namely in a specificform in the form of one's own self-identification, requires the following.First, to choose and apply an appropriate theoretical and methodologicalapproach, and secondly, provide a corresponding empirical research basewith relevant data. The theory of social constructivism with its main cate-gorical corpus was chosen as the theoretical base in our study: in the formof norms, socialization, identity, culture, identity and difference, discourse.The method of discursive analysis was considered as the primary researchmethod. The benefit of the purpose conceived in this way can be demon-strated by pointing out the appropriateness of the application of selectedprocedural steps of research in the form of a hermeneutic or heuristic insight to reveal the investigated phenomenon. It is therefore an attempt to confirmthe functionality of the chosen research methodological framework, as wellas the applied constructivist paradigm with its ontological and epistemo-logical starting points.

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