NATIONAL IDENTITY IN CONTEXT SECURITY ISSUES OF THE CASPIAN MACRO-REGION
The article is devoted to the complex issue of the role of national identity in ensuring the security of the Caspian macroregion. Using the theoretical conclusions of the concepts of cultural security and societal security of the Caspian macroregion, as well as the author's interpretation of the categories "national identity", "macro threats to the security of the Caspian region", "resources of national identity", the author solves the conceptual issue of developing a holistic interdisciplinary approach to the stated research problem. The result of the article is the definition of macro-threats to the national security of the constituent countries and the entire Caspian region, as well as the disclosure of the political, economic, cultural resources of national identity in their leveling. The article defends the key conceptual idea: the question of the resources of national identity in ensuring the security of the Caspian macroregion can be constructed by understanding the ontological conditionality of both the formation of the national identity itself in the historical context of the political, economic, cultural vectors of development of countries, and the objective significance of the national identity in the modern consolidation of the state, society, nation (peoples) to ensure the stable existence of the subjects of the Caspian macroregion. At the end of the article, the author's definition of national identity is given and its role in ensuring the national security of the constituent countries and the entire Caspian macroregion is revealed.