ASPECTS OF SECURITY “DILEMMA” WHAT WE HAVE LEARNED FROM THE MACEDONIAN CASE

Year 2009, Volume: 14 Issue: 1, 73 - 90, 01.06.2009

Dorian Jano

Abstract

state conflicts. In order to understand these phenomena, one needs to look at the changing notion of security since the fall of the bipolar world. In this context, the broader concept of ‘security dilemma’, including societal security besides the traditional state security dilemma, can offer an innovative approach in addressing the sources of insecurity and the response to it. This paper considers the case of the Macedonian security problem, analysing it at three levels: the state-regional level, the community-state level, and the international level, aiming to normatively respond to the question of about whose security we need to be concerned. The analysis presented in this paper suggests that although security is a multilayered process involving community, state, regional and international actors, each of them, with their own characteristics regarding preferences and roles, still has the ultimate aim of providing security for individuals. As a policy implication of this, security policies in multiethnic states should aim at security for all, and not only for just a few

Keywords

Critical security studies, societal security, Macedonia.