Challenges Facing Community Security in Europe after September 11 Events

Community security has been one of the latest approaches in security studies, especially among Europeans. It helps some neo-realists such as Barry Buzan and the thinkers of Copenhagen school in explaining security dilemmas at the state and interstate levels. Threats to community security may include prohibiting a particular language, name or clothing or the deportation and killing of an identity group making impossible the expression of their identity. Given above, this article tries to represent the distinct identities of self and other by operationalizing the concept of security dilemma at the state level. The official stance of the EU towards the concept of community security is very trivial and far from these issues. But the needs of today's society make necessary a deeper view on the social aspects of security. The main question of this article is that what is the status of community security in the framework of the EU policies? To answer correctly to this question, the hypothesis of this article states that deliberation on community security approach aiming at explaining theoretical relationship between security and identity is very important because the survival of every society depends on its identity. Therefore, the issue of community security in Europe contains an identity dimension which is far from the official view in this respect. This article aims at studying the current and desirable situation of community security in Europe, especially after September 11 events.