Recent studies have made great strides looking at the implications that the human need for
ontological security has for politics and International Relations. However, less attention has …

The concepts of 'self'and 'identity'are often implicitly conflated in constructivist research,
limiting our understanding of important theoretical issues. The Ontological Security Studies …

Covert action has long been a controversial tool of international relations. However, there is
remarkably little public understanding about whether it works and, more fundamentally …

Biographical narratives generate a continuous sense of political community across the
state's past, present and future, and provide the state with ontological security. Building on …

With today's social and geopolitical order in significant flux this project offers vital insight into
the future global order by comparatively charting national media perceptions regarding the …

While ontological security (OS) studies have gone through a recent evolution, shifting toward
psychoanalytic and existential accounts of anxiety, this article argues there remains a …

In a time of declining support for democracy and intensifying rivalry between democracies
and autocracies, understanding how nondemocratic nations portray US elections is vital …

This book provides a holistic picture of Chinese global security discourses, with a focus on
macrosecuritizations. The work examines how the People's Republic of China (PRC) has …

Abstracts While states are not human beings, they are institutionalized social groups. It is
humans who constitute and run them. Consequently, it is argued that countries can be …

Ontological security theory posits that states seek to provide their citizens not just physical
but also cognitive security, mostly through routinised foreign policy practices that reinforce …