ANALYSIS OF PROBLEM DEFINING IN SECURITY POLICY- MAKING

During the years of the last century, a new approach –the then academic discipline of public policy – prevailed the domain of problem-solving in various fields as a response to increasing public issues still needed to be addressed.
Among these fields, security issues emerged as a contextual framework in which states were serious about at a high level of attention and which resulted in a security agenda for the policy cycle.
As the policy cycle begins with the agenda setting phase and the departure point in this phase is defining the problem, we decided to clarify this point of departure in the present article using the security issues as a primary concern of the state authorities.