NATIONAL MINORITIES AND SECURITY OF STATES

The main topic of this article is represented by an attempt to encounter an answer to the question whether there is any connection between minorities and security and how do they mutually influence. Pursuant to the analyses performed during the last years, we may definitely state that there is a biunivoque connection between migration/minorities and security. The/minorities may influence security positively or negatively. Both states are influenced, the state they are leaving, and the state where they are to settle. Despite an increased interdependence of individuals, communities and, last but not least, of states, of intensification of their contacts, one tends to emphasize the belonging to a certain category, ethnic, religious or other category and of assertion of the identity of such groups. This phenomenon may often produce tensions that may degenerate in conflicts. It must be stated that not always and not obligatorily the ethnic tensions, the migration or other kind of tensions produce conflicts and, implicitly, they do not threat directly the international security. The threat of security and stability results, most of the times, from the exploitation and handling of such tensions in political purposes, phenomenon that we may call ethnicization of politics. A proper answer before these tensions entails always an evolution and it cannot cause, at all, a catastrophe.