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What is the relationship between identity and security in international relations?
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What is the relationship between identity and security in international relations?
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What is the relationship between identity and securtiy international relations?The core question of identity is "who I or we are", "who he or they are", and individual or group
social concepts, religious culture, historical memory, living habits, etc. will affect the answer. Due
to differences in culture and many other factors, there are various identities in the international
society. Identity and security issues are closely related. For the country, the process of identity
recognition is also accompanied by political changes and social processes. Identity has a security
meaning, and identity brings a sense of security to both parties.
When two parties who disagree with each other communicate with each other, they often
engage in verbal attacks and treat each other as a low-level party. For example, many research
documents of Orientalism and postcolonialism show that there is verbal slander among groups
that do not identify with each other. Said, the representative of "Oriental Studies", used some
modern Western literature, travel records, and political commentaries to revive the Western
discourse construction of colonies. In this process, the East was constructed as an irrational,
backward, degraded, and child-like heterogeneous culture, while the West was a rational and
virtuous mature culture.
Identity between groups can bring unity and security, while disagreement is often a source of
threats. When the sense of disidentification becomes extreme, there is often a struggle between
one party trying to eliminate the other's identity and the other trying to defend its own identity.
This kind of identity struggle between the self and the other is everywhere. In the field of
international politics, identity struggle mainly involves two categories: the struggle to realize the
international recognition of one's identity, and the struggle to defend the challenged identity. For
example, in the late 19th century, Germany's hegemonic efforts to realize its status as a great
power, and Britain's military operations to defend its original hegemonic status. The identity
struggle between Britain and Germany was one of the key factors in the outbreak of the First
World War. It can be seen that any similar identity struggle may endanger the regional or global
security situation.
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