Presence of Jihadist Groups in the International Sphere on the Basis of Otherness Making Process and Identity

Nowadays the Jihadi Salafsm is, for the frst time in the history of international relations, aninfluential movement playing a notable role against the dominant order. Therefore one canconfrm the presence of contemporary Jihadists within the international sphere as a threatening factor that must necessarily be well understood and studied in its various dimensions. Inthis research direction, we have to explain, through studying in what way they are playing arole in the international arena, how this radical and fundamentalist movements have becomeable to create a chain of conflicts and disorders. This question can be answered when wegained an understanding of the effective mechanisms in shaping the identity of this groupsin the international arena. In this regard this paper explains that by what means “othernessmaking process” is the approach by which we can clarify the identity of these groups within the framework of contemporary international order. Specifcally the paper describes theconcept of otherness making in the later literature of international relations as a theoreticalframework and a postmodern methodology by which one can analyze how contemporaryjihadism works and gain power and identity. Then, on the basis of this, the paper examineshow jihadist groups are seeking legitimacy for its acts against international order. Hopefullyit helps the paper to provide us with a fresh insight into the logic of their presence on theinternational arena.Paper is divided in the following Sections: otherness making, Identity and Otherness, Islamic world as an absent identity in the International politics, Meaning of Otherness in thediscourse of Salafsm and jihadist, and the Interaction between Jihadist Groups and International Order based on otherness making