Social Capital and Sustainable National Security

This paper studies the relationship between social capital and sustainable national security and its main question is as follows; what is the role of social capital in promotion of sustainable national security and what are its mechanisms? In answering these questions first the challenges of modern security is discussed and then the role of social capital is considered under the said process. Based on the findings of this paper, social order and national security are outcome of citizen’s and the interest groups satisfaction and this in turn is subject to existence of powerful social networks originated in durable and institutional process which can be represented in a influential social capital. The theoretical findings of this paper indicate that social capital can directly influence sustainable national security through several ways and means including increasing the national solidarity, facilitating socio-political and economic crises management, preventing socio-political passiveness, promotion of the capacity of the system, consolidation and promotion of national identity and deepening the trust.