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标题：A New Perspective on Security Identity and Ethnic Violence
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作者：LUCIAN-ŞTEFAN DUMITRESCU ; Security Imaginary
期刊名称：Romanian Review of Political Sciences and International Relations
印刷版ISSN：1841-2300
电子版ISSN：2285-2107
出版年度：2015
卷号：XII
期号：2
页码：3-12
出版社：Romanian Academy Publishing House
摘要：Security identiy has received many different interpretations. Some of them are fueled by a too conservative perspective and, thus, consider collective identities to be free-floating entities, whereas others are underpinned by a too liberal approach that stresses the importance of identification and therefore the lack of any social constraints in choosing a certain identity. This theoretical article brings to the fore the concept of security imaginary, which is presented as the outward-looking dimension of every collective identity. I argue that when the security imaginary tends to become over-assertive it creates supplementary threats to the security identity of the neighbouring social groups. I also point out that under certain circumstances a too agressive security imaginary might be conducive for ethnic tensions although security imaginary per se cannot trigger ethnic violence.
关键词：security identity; security imaginary; collective identity; ethnic ; violence; interethnic relations