الهوية واللغة والثقافة والأمن عند مدرسة كوبنهاغن

Abstract

The topic of this paper is the issue of identity, language and culture in international politics from the perspective of the Copenhagen School of International Relations, to see how this school’s discourse makes connection between identity and security that includes societal security. The threat of the identity is a threat to the societal security. The issue of international migration is taken as an applied model for the use of those concepts by the Copenhagen School, which is driven towards thinking about the consequences of a large number of migrants on the social security of the countries of residence. Then it attempted to link this presence to risks to the public order or the economic health of the countries receiving these migrants. Hence the idea of securitization of immigration in order to secure society and its identity, and protect the State from the threat of international migration. This, as this paper underlines, undermines the concept of liberalism and its openness to the other regardless of race, gender and religion. The paper also engages in inviting Western societies to rethink the nature of the relationship that their citizens have with migrants in the context of the so-called cultural diversity.