Research Article

How Does Transnational Islamist Terrorism Challenge The Conceptions Of Inter National Security?

Number: 37 May 1, 2006
  • Giada Garofalo
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How Does Transnational Islamist Terrorism Challenge The Conceptions Of Inter National Security?

Abstract

This article questions the meanings of international and national security analysing a current security issue, Islamist terrorism, through a critical appıoach to two mainstream conceptions, the narrow territoria one of neorealist tradition and the idea of extended security derived from globalist perspectives of which the final referent object is no longer the State but the individual. Drawing on Regional Security Complex Theory to bridge the opposition between the two and to highlight the interconnectedness of different levels of analysis national, regional, global this article finally suggests that the security threat posed by Islamist neofundamentalism as ideology behind terrorism could also be read in terms of the construction of a transnational identity in opposition to one of the State's traditional sources of identity, the nation. Being, in fact, this new identity founded on the value of universalism, it is transnational not only territorially but also because it opposes a national dimension both culturally and politically. Consequently, such opposition can be understood as an issue of national security - especially in multi-national states in vvhich however one nation is dominant över the others vvithin the territory - as it competes with, offers itself as alternative to one of the three elements that form the State, its identity vvhich is the bonding agent between its governing institutions and its physical base; and has also repercussions in terms of international security because in an international system formed predominantly by states, it questions the idea of the modern state rather than just its incapacity to deal vvith international problems.

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Primary Language

English

Subjects

Political Science

Journal Section

Research Article

Authors

Giada Garofalo This is me

Publication Date

May 1, 2006

Submission Date

January 1, 2006

Acceptance Date

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Published in Issue

Year 2006 Number: 37

APA
Garofalo, G. (2006). How Does Transnational Islamist Terrorism Challenge The Conceptions Of Inter National Security? The Turkish Yearbook of International Relations, 37, 1-39. https://doi.org/10.1501/Intrel_0000000128
AMA
1.Garofalo G. How Does Transnational Islamist Terrorism Challenge The Conceptions Of Inter National Security? The Turkish Yearbook of International Relations. 2006;(37):1-39. doi:10.1501/Intrel_0000000128
Chicago
Garofalo, Giada. 2006. “How Does Transnational Islamist Terrorism Challenge The Conceptions Of Inter National Security?”. The Turkish Yearbook of International Relations, nos. 37: 1-39. https://doi.org/10.1501/Intrel_0000000128.
EndNote
Garofalo G (May 1, 2006) How Does Transnational Islamist Terrorism Challenge The Conceptions Of Inter National Security? The Turkish Yearbook of International Relations 37 1–39.
IEEE
[1]G. Garofalo, “How Does Transnational Islamist Terrorism Challenge The Conceptions Of Inter National Security?”, The Turkish Yearbook of International Relations, no. 37, pp. 1–39, May 2006, doi: 10.1501/Intrel_0000000128.
ISNAD
Garofalo, Giada. “How Does Transnational Islamist Terrorism Challenge The Conceptions Of Inter National Security?”. The Turkish Yearbook of International Relations. 37 (May 1, 2006): 1-39. https://doi.org/10.1501/Intrel_0000000128.
JAMA
1.Garofalo G. How Does Transnational Islamist Terrorism Challenge The Conceptions Of Inter National Security? The Turkish Yearbook of International Relations. 2006;:1–39.
MLA
Garofalo, Giada. “How Does Transnational Islamist Terrorism Challenge The Conceptions Of Inter National Security?”. The Turkish Yearbook of International Relations, no. 37, May 2006, pp. 1-39, doi:10.1501/Intrel_0000000128.
Vancouver
1.Giada Garofalo. How Does Transnational Islamist Terrorism Challenge The Conceptions Of Inter National Security? The Turkish Yearbook of International Relations. 2006 May 1;(37):1-39. doi:10.1501/Intrel_0000000128