Kimlik ve Güvenlik İlişkisine Konstrüktivist Bir Yaklaşım: “Kimliğin Güvenliği” ve “Güvenliğin Kimliği”
A Constructivist Approach to the Identity and Security Relationship: “The Identity of the Security” and “The Security of the Identity”

Summary/Abstract: The constructivist approach, which attaches significance to “social construction” and “interaction” in international relations, claims that the meanings that are given by the traditional theories to the concepts of security and foreign policy must be reconsidered. According to the constructivists, abstract elements like culture and identity have a modifying and transformative effect on security and foreign policy analyses, which had long been ignored. Through constructivist presumptions, this article focuses on the close relationship between identity and security perception and claims that the foreign policies of the states must be analyzed in frame of the interaction between these two basic elements. Relying on the idea that the “anthropomorphization” of the state is possible, this article presents that a similar version of the interaction between an individual’s identity and security perception is being experienced between the identity and security perception of a state and aims to make a unique contribution to the IR literature by claiming that “the identity of the security” is as significant as “the security of the identity” in foreign policy analysis.

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