THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF THE STUDY OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE STATE POLICY ON THE SECURITIZATION OF ISLAM

Abstract

The article analyzes the scientific approaches of leading domestic and foreign researchers to determine the effectiveness of state policy on the securitization of Islam. It has been found that in the framework of securitization, security is treated as a discursive practice aimed at creating a hierarchy of political priorities. The problem being securitized is given the status of an existential threat, which necessarily requires emergency measures. The securitization of security threats forms the basis of the relationship between government and society. On the one hand, the ruling elite can form and direct a sense of threat to society in their narrow corporate interests. However, the population is also able to impose a sense of danger on the elite and thus influence public policy. It is determined that in modern geopolitical conditions there is a great danger that securitization can be used by public authorities in the narrow corporate interests of the ruling elites. In this case, a mechanism of state non-political influence on society can be created. At the same time, research suggests that the securitization of Islam as violence against Muslims by state authorities has two important consequences. First, after the securitization of Islam, the political rights of other sections of the population are often violated. Second, the government's violence against Muslims generates retaliatory violence. At the same time, pursuing a state or interstate policy of desecuritizing Islam, even in such complex regions as Kosovo and Iraq, leads to the creation of zones in which mechanisms for the peaceful settlement of conflicts are formed. In the current Ukrainian realities, Islam cannot be seen as a threat to state or public interests. It follows that securitization methods are not acceptable for use against Ukrainian Muslims in public policy. At the same time, the potential danger of radicalization of certain parts of the local Muslim community should be taken into account and preventively leveled by the relevant state bodies in the framework of desecuritization.