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JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND DEVELOPMENT
卷 21, 期 4, 页码 883-908出版社
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN LTD
DOI: 10.1057/s41268-017-0083-3
关键词
critical situations; discourse; fundamental questions; Kosovo; ontological security; Serbia
The central premise of ontological security theory is that states are ready to compromise their physical security and other important material gains in order to protect their ontological security. While the existing studies have primarily focused on how states defend or maintain their ontological security, little attention has been paid to critical situations that make states ontologically insecure in the first place. Drawing on the work of Anthony Giddens, I conceptualise critical situations in world politics as radical disjunctions that challenge the ability of collective actors to 'go on' by bringing into the realm of discursive consciousness four fundamental questions related to existence, finitude, relations and autobiography. The argument is illustrated in a case study of ontological insecurity produced in Serbia by the secession of Kosovo.
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