STATE AND IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION ON THE MAP OF GLOBAL POLITICS: DJIBOUTI

Abstract

The article intends to reveal and analyse a country, Djibouti, from the perspective of state and identity construction on the global political map. The lenses we use to discuss the internal political dynamics of Djibouti reflect the constructivist approach of international politics, as well as the realist school of thought, emphasizing the rhetorical strategies and identitarian politics employed for state and identity building, meanwhile accomplishing political ends of the great powers and legitimizing their control over geostrategic positions. Djibouti holds no record pertaining to the number of coups d’état the African countries have experienced during the postCold War period and the explanation we intend to uphold for such a record of “internal political stability” accounts to the big picture of global politics: the confrontation between the great powers which influences the internal socio – political dynamics within a country whose geopolitical and geostrategic position concentrates a lot of goals in dispute.