SOĞUK SAVAŞ SONRASI DÖNEMDE BİR GÜVENLİKLEŞTİRME UNSURU OLARAK PEŞTUN KİMLİĞİNİN PAKİSTAN ÜZERİNDEN İNCELENMESİ

Abstract

This study analyzes, how the Pashtun ethnic community living on the Pakistan-Afghanistan Durand border line is presented as a security problem by the Pakistani state and how it is included in the securitization process within the framework of the securitization approach put forward by the Copenhagen school. The answers given by the Pakistani political actors to the question of who is the Pashtun and the perception created within the framework of the adjectives (speech-acts) they use, gave the actors the opportunity to mobilize. Pakistan realized a successful securitization, thus it was able to go beyond the normal political rules and take extraordinary measures, which  were largely regarded as legitimate by the audience.