Reflection on Relationship between History, Identity and Security: improving societal security by re-narrating history

s an signification issue and objective experience at the same time, security is the basic pillar of formation of human societies and individual identities in society. The individual identity in human societies are not possible without determining the meaning of "who we are" which is derived from the past. Therefore there is a conceptual coherence between security, identity and the past. in the globalization era and nation-state security system, security studies have transcended from realist approach based on national security i.e. state security and propounded "societal security" based on the security of identities. The main problem o this article is to illustrate the significance of recognizing the relationship between security and identity and past narrations in new approaches, and at the same time, it examines the strategic significance of teaching Iranian history in internalizing cultural and social values of national identity in relation with national security. on this basis, i have tried to illustrate the meaning represented from this kind of narrating the past under security and national security by genealogy of the position of history as past in constructing political identities of pre-modern and modern states in Iran which reduced it to "state security" hence denied the possibility of forming and continuing reinforcing concepts for understanding "societal security" in the institution authorized for establishing order and security in sovereignty. Accepting the duality of order/disorder and authority/anarchy as the historical reality of Iranian society has established this mechanism of marginalizing in direction of making state as the guardian of security and reducing the concept of national security to state security.