Conditions for Securitization of International Terrorism in Central Asia

Abstract

This article was written with support from the CARI HESP OSI Program (Budapest). Irina Chernykh and Rustam Burnashev are professors at the Kazakhstan-German University. Translated from the Russian by Language Services Branch, George C. Marshall Center. 1 Of course, the assertion that the starting point for "international" terrorism was September 11, 2001 is not fully correct. For example, "the first item on the agenda of the first meeting of the National Security Council under President Reagan was international terrorism…. Secretary of State Alexander Haig announced … that 'international terrorism will take the place of human rights' as the number one priority of the Reagan administration. A decade later George Bush … proclaimed in his Inaugural Address that terrorism and drugs would be the two primary targets of his administration." James Der Derian, Antidiplomacy: Spies, Terror, Speed, and War (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1992), 73. 2 Buzan and Waever define securitization as "the discursive process through which an intersubjective understanding is constructed within a political community to treat something as an existential threat to a valued referent object, and to enable a call for urgent and exceptional measures to deal with the threat.

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“…The south Asian security complex can be best analyzed when the states feel the threat and form security alliances, with regional or great powers. Many scholars have applied the regional security complex on Afghanistan with relevance to central Asian Republics and ignored this relation with the South Asian domain (Chernykh & Burnashev, 2005).…”