Değişen Güvenlik Algılamaları Işığında Tehdit ve Asimetrik Tehdit
Threat and Asymmetric Threat under the Light of Changing Security Perceptions

Summary/Abstract: The basic concept which gives rise to the concept of security is threat perception. Till the end of the bi-polar world order, security had been considered as the threat by the armed forces of a country against the other countries and the measures taken against those threats. In the new world order, which came into existence after the collapse of bi-polar world order, threats and thus security perceptions have changed. Within the framework of changed security perceptions, there is a connection varying according to the conditions between the threat concept and the asymmetric threat concept that has became on indispensable factor of the security policy. In a research made, since there was no universal definition of asymmetric threat and due to its structure, it was determined that it was used in order to state the use of already known symmetric threats with a different conception and sometimes to refer to such threats as terrorism. In this context asymmetry seems as a term that is used without sufficient conceptual study on it. Since it cannot be defined, it has become a conception of threat that is politically easily exploited and it is frequently used. In this context, it is thought that USA, by using this concept, creates a field that has not been defined by international law yet and thus frequently exploits this situation. Subsequently, other states such as China and Russia have also started to exploit this issue. Asymmetric threat forms the variable part of the threat concept that points out a general expression. Sometimes it forms only a part of the threat and sometimes it forms an abstract notion. Generally speaking, it is the shadow of the threat.

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