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ULUSLARARASI ORTA DOĞU KONGRESİ, Kocaeli Üniversitesi, Turkey, 1 - 04 August 2012, vol.I., pp.495-501
Security of a single individual and its right to live with dignity in a society beyond the restrictions of ‘constructed threats of the national states’ came to agenda after the post Cold War environment. Conflicts spread in this environment and get out of the control of state intervention and receive insufficient reaction, which have influenced the theoretical production of emancipation concept in the critical security approaches. Furthermore, regional conflicts, poverty, abuse of women as a vehicle of war, environmental derogation, are all left out from state based security studies. Individual restrictions of the state-centered analyses have induced the scholars to interrogate fear created by the state. After the Cold War, identity policies have turned into crucialphenomenon for the statesand perceived as an issue of national security. Classical ‘problem solving’ approach has analyzedminority rights in this environment.
The aim of this study is to look at the theoretical evaluation of identity concept in security studies and to analyze, compare and contrast the state based security approach and critical approach especially with regards to minority policies and identity issues in the age of multiculturalism.