Though bereft of tangibility, your identity resides in you.

Hence, it is better to feel its essence flow through diplomatic conduct than to see a tarnished representation of it.

The identity-security nexus in an age of new terrorism

A Presentation for the Second IRFS Colloquium

Fr. Theodore Buttenbruch Hall, University of San Carlos 21 September 2012

Archill Nina Faller-Capistrano, LlB w/bar, MInternatRel Faculty, USC Department of Political Science

Objective
To answer the question: Is there a link between security and identity new terrorism? in this age of new terrorism

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Security
Hierarchy of needs (Maslow and Frager, 1987) Ontological security (Giddens, 1984) Passive belonging vs. governmental belonging (Hage, 1998)

Identity
Identity = new home (Kinvall, 2004) Glocalized production of differences

(Wieviorka, 2004)

Security in world history

Points to compare Historical Segments Westphalianmercantilist Nation-states military, diplomacy, ideology Hard/ Traditional Security Capitalist world-system/ neoliberal globalization Solid to Liquid modernity* Global fluids same + global fluids Hard/Traditional vs. Soft/Human Security

Objects

Nation-states, Individuals
same vs. economic, cultural Hard/Traditional vs. Soft/Human Security

Instruments Kind of security

* (Bauman, 2001, p. 137)

Global fluids (Urry, 2002, p. 65)

world money automobility global media digitized information and the Internet social movements travelling peoples international terrorism

Global fluids and security

moving populations

Nation-state
- crisis of efficiency

world money Self-regulating markets

- crisis of equity - crisis of legitimacy - crisis of identity

(Castells, 2008, pp. 82-83)

(Munck, 2006, p. 325, citing Polanyi, 2000 )

Moghaddams Staircase to Terrorism

5F: carry out terrorist acts 4F: recruitment to terrorist organization 3F: moral engagement 2F: displace aggression to enemy

1F: achieve greater justice

Ground: relative deprivation
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Conclusion
High/state-centric politics (solid modernity) has been and continues to be prevalent in conceptualizing security. Liquid modernity tends to problematize security and trace it to non-state entities (global fluids). The locus of new terrorism can be traced to the security-identity nexus.

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Advisers note
(in light of the CCYDs Official Statement regarding the IRFS logo)

It has been a painful decision to issue the cease and desist order. Everyone can pin the blame on me for this bombshell. Yet, despite the cost, hope is not lost. For while the country is reeling from denials of liability in the 'Sotto-copy' controversy, the CCYD has opted to take the principled path of owning its challenges. I hope all of us in the IRFS track will join hands with the CCYD in reinventing the face of politics.