Journal articles: 'Ontological security'

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Rumelili, Bahar, and Ayşe Betül Çelik. "Ontological insecurity in asymmetric conflicts: Reflections on agonistic peace in Turkey’s Kurdish issue." Security Dialogue 48, no. 4 (April 24, 2017): 279–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0967010617695715.

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This article contributes to the recent literature on ontological security in conflict studies by empirically investigating, through a case study of Turkey’s Kurdish issue, how ontological asymmetry complicates peace processes. Over time, all conflicts become embroiled in a set of self-conceptions and narratives vis-à-vis the Other, the maintenance of which becomes critical for ontological security. In ethnic conflicts, however, these conceptions and narratives also intersect with a fundamental ontological asymmetry, because such conflicts often pit state parties with secure existence against ethnic groups with contested status and illegitimate standing. We argue that peace processes are easier to initiate but harder to conclude in ontologically asymmetric conflicts. Accordingly, we find that during the 2009–2015 peace process in Turkey, ontological (in)security-induced dynamics presented themselves in cyclical patterns of ambitious peace initiatives receiving greater support among the Kurdish public but giving way, at the first sign of crisis, to a rapid and dramatic return to violence, which neither side acted to stem. Moreover, we underscore that ontologically asymmetric conflicts, such as Turkey’s Kurdish issue, are often characterized by a societal security dilemma, where the conditions of ontological security for one party undermine those of the other. Therefore, building consensus around a new shared peace narrative may not be possible or desirable, and a lasting solution to Turkey’s Kurdish issue depends on the development of an agonistic peace around coexisting, multiple and contestatory narratives.

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Kazharski, Aliaksei. "Civilizations as Ontological Security?" Problems of Post-Communism 67, no. 1 (May 1, 2019): 24–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10758216.2019.1591925.

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Hapon, Nadiya, Anna Vovk, Iryna Snyadanko, and Liliya Fedyna. "ONTOLOGICAL SECURITY OF AN INDIVIDUAL: ATTACHMENT STYLES AND COPING STRATEGIES." Journal of Education Culture and Society 12, no. 2 (September 25, 2021): 317–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.15503/jecs2021.2.317.329.

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Aim. The aim of this paper is to theoretically substantiate individual’s attachment as a need for ontological security, to outline the educational aspects of supporting the ontological security, and to empirically investigate the attachment styles and coping strategies of individuals in early and middle adulthood. Methods. The article is based on an extensive review of the literature, which involves the use of such methods as interpretation (of previously unexplained psychological aspects of ontological security) and comparative analysis (of the views of Ronald Laing and family psychotherapists). An empirical study was conducted. The study group consisted of 90 persons: 45 male and 45 female, at the age of early and middle adulthood. The research used a number of psychological methods to study different types of attachments, relationships, personality traits and coping strategies that help overcome ontological insecurity. The method of statistical and mathematical analysis of results was also applied. Results. Ontological security is a marker of positive types of attachment. Our empirical research has shown that people with anxious attachment more often overcome ontological insecurity by positively rethinking the problem, which can lead to an underestimation of the possibilities of its effective solution. People with a reliable attachment are ontologically secure due to mutual trust, responsibility, problem analysis and planning, which eliminate escape strategies and problem avoidance. Conclusions. Ontological security-insecurity manifests itself in different types of attachments and corresponding coping strategies. The results showed the importance of developing and adapting the methodology of ontological protection for Ukrainian socio-cultural realities. This technique is being prepared to be operationalized with the scales of psychological techniques used in this study.

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Tufte, Thomas. "AIDS, globalisation and ontological security." Comunicar 13, no. 26 (March 1, 2006): 27–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.3916/c26-2006-05.

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The working hypothesis of this article is that many of the root causes of AIDS are intrinsically tied to the processes of globalisation. To develop efficient responses to AIDS requires more than conveying a clear message about sexual behaviour. It will often require broader strategies to empower the audiences to handle difficult conditions of everyday life. By drawing on post-colonial theory on the interrelation between media and migration, modernity and globalisation, this text seeks to re-assess the challenge of AIDS communication and prevention, suggesting a fundamental rethinking of current practice where the impacts of economic and cultural globalisation are taken into consideration. La hipótesis de trabajo de este artículo es que muchas de las causas primarias del SIDA están intrínsecamente ligadas a los procesos de globalización. Para desarrollar respuestas eficientes al problema del SIDA es necesario algo más que un mensaje claro acerca del comportamiento sexual. A menudo requerirá estrategias más amplias para animar a las audiencias a sobrellevar las difíciles condiciones de la vida cotidiana. Basándose en la teoría post-colonial de la relación existente entre medios de comunicación, migración, modernidad y globalización, este texto busca valorar el reto de la comunicación y prevención en SIDA, sugiriendo la reconsideración de las prácticas actuales donde los impactos de la globalización económica y cultural se tienen en consideración.

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Solomon, Ty. "Attachment, tautology, and ontological security." Critical Studies on Security 1, no. 1 (April 2013): 130–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21624887.2013.790228.

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Krahmann, Elke. "The market for ontological security." European Security 27, no. 3 (July 3, 2018): 356–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09662839.2018.1497983.

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Gazit, Orit. "Van Gennep Meets Ontological (In)Security: A Processual Approach to Ontological Security in Migration." International Studies Review 21, no. 4 (June 21, 2018): 572–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/isr/viy049.

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AbstractThis article utilizes van Gennep's neglected theory of territorial passages to answer two key questions in the study of ontological security (OS) in migration. First, why do the members of the receiving society lose their perceived sense of OS in face of a mass of strangers arriving at their gates? Second, how, if at all, do they attempt to reconstitute it while incorporating the strangers into their world? Following the recent call within OS studies in international relations (IR) to spell out the social mechanisms that facilitate the anxiety and uncertainty of the agents, I use the case of the German societal response to the 2015 refugee crisis to demonstrate that van Gennep's classical approach, far from being structural and functionalist, offers an advanced, power-informed, and processual perspective for uncovering a possible sociosymbolic mechanism behind the perceived “losing” and “re-finding” of OS in migratory encounters. The article delineates the principles of a “thick” approach to OS in migration, explains how van Gennep's theory adds to this approach, and highlights the ultimate unattainability of OS as an essentialist category that is either “present” or “absent” throughout the migratory encounter. It concludes by discussing the added value of van Gennep's theory to the study of OS in the contemporary global milieu of the “age of migration.”

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HÜRSOY, Siret, and Z. Melis ÖZÜN ÇÖLLÜOĞLU. "Avrupa Birliğinde Ontolojik Güven(siz)lik: Kıbrıs Örneği." Ankara Avrupa Calismalari Dergisi 21, no. 1 (August 5, 2022): 167–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.32450/aacd.1148623.

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Ontological (in)security concept has been recently introduced to the security studies and qained popularity. Individuals and states instinctively pursue their physical security, but they never feel completely safe in an environment which stability and security of self’s existence cannot be guaranteed. They’re in a search for attaining ontological security through narratives, habits, and routines to generate a sense of trust in an uncertainty environment. In this regard, this article tries to answer a key question: how ongoing Cyprus conflict be explained through ontological (in)security considering the EU’s failure to unravel security dilemmas between Turkish and Greek communities on the island? The findings of the article will contribute to the existing literature and open up new debates concerning the role of ontological (in)security in ongoing conflicts

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Zarakol, Ayşe. "States and ontological security: A historical rethinking." Cooperation and Conflict 52, no. 1 (July 11, 2016): 48–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0010836716653158.

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In this brief essay, I explore the relationship between ‘states’ (or more broadly, institutions of political authority) and ontological security. Drawing from historical examples, I argue that it is a mistake to assume that all ‘states’ seek ontological security: this generalisation applies only to those polities that claim to be the main ontological security providers. I then develop a typology of institutional ontological security provision arrangements as have existed throughout history, arguing that another reason the concept of ontological security is valuable for international relations (IR) is because it offers a way to compare systems across time and space without assuming the primacy of politics or religion. In summary, IR does not have to limit its use of the concept of ontological security to a synonym for ‘state identity’ – ontological security can offer much more than that by helping the discipline reach across time and space.

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Gustafsson, Karl, and Nina C. Krickel-Choi. "Returning to the roots of ontological security: insights from the existentialist anxiety literature." European Journal of International Relations 26, no. 3 (June 8, 2020): 875–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1354066120927073.

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Research on ontological security in International Relations (IR) has grown significantly in recent years. However, this scholarship is marked by conceptual ambiguity concerning the meaning of and relationship between the key concepts of ontological insecurity and anxiety. In addition, ontological security scholarship has been criticized for applying a concept that was originally developed for understanding individuals to states, and for being excessively concerned with continuity while largely ignoring change or seeing it as a negative force to be avoided. Despite such issues, however, reflection on the theoretical origins of ontological security remains limited. Based on such reflection, the present article argues that these issues can be circumvented if we return to one of the theoretical precursors of ontological security studies, the existentialist literature on anxiety. R.D. Laing, who coined the term ontological security, was strongly influenced by the existentialist anxiety theorists. Anthony Giddens, however, who drew on Laing and whose understanding of ontological security permeates IR scholarship, explicitly rejected the distinction between normal and neurotic anxiety, which was central to the work of existentialists like Rollo May. This article reintroduces this distinction. Doing so is useful, the article argues, both for providing conceptual clarity and for moving beyond the criticisms of ontological security mentioned above. More generally, the article suggests that ontological security studies has much to gain from drawing on the insights of the existentialist literature on anxiety to a greater extent than has hitherto been the case.

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Jekić, Aleksandar. "Ontological security dynamics in the EU accession process of North Macedonia." Journal of Regional Security 19, no. 2 (2024): 159–84. https://doi.org/10.5937/jrs19-49142.

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Ontological security studies emphasize the importance of routinized relations with others. European Integration is understood as a driver of such routinized relations, making it a source of ontological security and the EU an ontological security provider. Yet, as the case of North Macedonia illustrates, the process of EU accession goes along with bilateral disputes and can trigger concerns about ontological (in)security. To fully understand the dynamics of ontological security-seeking and -provision in the EU, the article investigates its limitations in the context of enlargement. This is done through a qualitative analysis of public statements of Macedonian representatives in the period between the Bulgarian veto in 2020 and the French proposal in 2022. Results indicate that the EU's role as a provider of ontological security in the Macedonian case highly depends on the perceived credibility of EU membership, as the latter is seen as a means to gain external recognition and thereby ensure the maintenance of a coherent sense of the Self. Perceptions of low membership credibility, however, challenge the ability of maintaining a coherent sense of the Self and turn the EU into a depriver of ontological security.

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Vasyura, Svetlana, and Olga Nikitina. "Activity of different life spheres and environmental security of students." E3S Web of Conferences 273 (2021): 12108. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202127312108.

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Rapidly developing information technologies bring to crucial changes in different areas of student life activities - learning, communications, leisure – and have an impact on individuals’ activities. Empirical research aims to identify connections of activity and ontological security in communications, knowledge, learning, experiences, reflection. The assumption, that activity in communications and activity in learning have closer links with ontological security than activity in other areas of life, is put forward as a hypothesis. Theoretical basis of the research creates A.A. Volochkov’s concept of activity of an individual (subject), N.V. Kopteva’s theoretical construct of ontological security. The research involves 97 students of medical college at the age of 17-21. The empirical research applied the following methods: methods of “Diagnostics of activity of students” DAS-2 (A.Yu. Popov, A.A. Volochkov); questionary of ontological security (OS-PM); method of ontological security built up on the principle of semantic differential (OS-SD) (N.V. Kopteva). As a result of empirical research, it was stated that broad-spectrum activity of students is implemented and developed in connection with one of the basic grounds of human – ontological security. Out of three model components of activity structure: need in interaction - volitional regulation of interactions - satisfaction with interactions, the first two components are stronger connected with ontological security that the third component. Out of the life spheres where the activity is found, activity in communication and activity in learning have closer connections with ontological security that any other areas of life.

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Shani, Giorgio. "Human Security as ontological security: a post-colonial approach." Postcolonial Studies 20, no. 3 (July 3, 2017): 275–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13688790.2017.1378062.

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de Leon, Justin. "Lakota experiences of (in)security: cosmology and ontological security." International Feminist Journal of Politics 22, no. 1 (November 19, 2018): 33–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14616742.2018.1527183.

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Cash, John. "Psychoanalysis, cultures of anarchy, and ontological insecurity." International Theory 12, no. 2 (July 2020): 306–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1752971920000147.

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When ontological insecurity looms, what comes next? Is chaos the sole alternative to the maintenance of established role-identities and routines? Or is there a more complex set of possible responses to the dread threat of ontological insecurity? The principal approach to ontological security in International Relations (IR) relies unduly on Giddens' account. Consequently, this approach fails to adequately capture both the variety of ways in which coherent and continuous identities can be maintained and the variety of ways in which the available cultural repertoire can support ontological security differently when challenged. Typically, ontological security is re-established, prior to collapse, through re-balancing of the cultural repertoire to give broader scope to an alternative cultural form and the qualitatively different practices it organizes. Due to misrecognition, this reorganization may proceed without disturbing the ontological security of states-in-interaction. Unconscious processes, encoded into cultural forms, are integral to such variable defenses against ontological insecurity. A re-conceptualization that regards Wendt's cultures of anarchy, and their qualitatively different modes of relating, as dynamically co-present within cultural repertoires, but with potentially variable weightings, complements this approach to ontological in/security.

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B. Roberts, David. "Ontological Security and the Gulf Crisis." Journal of Arabian Studies 10, no. 2 (July 2, 2020): 221–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21534764.2020.1833413.

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DOLATABADİ, Ali Bagheri. "Ontological Security and Iran’s Missile Program." All Azimuth: A Journal of Foreign Policy and Peace 11, no. 2 (July 30, 2022): 233–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.20991/allazimuth.1150303.

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This article attempts to answer the question of why Iran is reluctant to discuss its missile program. Unlike other studies that focus on the importance of Iran’s missile program in providing deterrence for the country and establishing a balance of military power in the region, or that view the missile program as one of dozens of post-revolutionary contentious issues between Iran and the United States, this article looks into Iran’s ontological security. The paper primarily argues that the missile program has become a source of pride for Iranians, inextricably linked to their identity. As a result, the Iranian authorities face two challenges when it comes to sitting at the negotiation table with their Western counterparts: deep mistrust of the West, and the ensuing sense of shame over any deal on the missile issue. Thus, Iranian officials opted to preserve the identity components of the program, return to normal and daily routines of life, insist on the missile program’s continuation despite sanctions and threats, and emphasize the dignity and honor of having a missile program. The article empirically demonstrates how states can overcome feelings of shame and mistrust. It also theoretically proves that when physical security conflicts with ontological security, governments prefer the former over the latter, based on the history of Iran’s nuclear negotiations. They appeal to create new narratives to justify changing their previous policies.

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Danermark, Berth D., and Kerstin Möller. "Deafblindness, ontological security, and social recognition." International Journal of Audiology 47, sup2 (January 2008): S119—S123. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14992020802307388.

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Georgiou, Myria. "Seeking Ontological Security beyond the Nation." Television & New Media 14, no. 4 (November 19, 2012): 304–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1527476412463448.

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Zhukova, Ekatherina. "From ontological security to cultural trauma." Acta Sociologica 59, no. 4 (July 20, 2016): 332–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0001699316658697.

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Gazit, Orit. "Corrigendum to “Van Gennep Meets Ontological (In)Security: A Processual Approach to Ontological Security in Migration”." International Studies Review 20, no. 3 (July 26, 2018): 546. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/isr/viy061.

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Mafuang, Supatat. "Ontological Security: Genesis, Application in International Relations and Multilateralism and Minilateralism Studies." Общество: политика, экономика, право, no. 1 (January 22, 2025): 64–74. https://doi.org/10.24158/pep.2025.1.8.

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Why is minilateralism “exclusive, flexible, resilient, and functional” by nature? This article seeks to understand how these elements are constructed in the paradigm of cooperation in a minilateral format. It is emphasized that the concept of ontological security was originally formulated by R.D. Laing in the 1960s, becoming a com-ponent of the therapeutic approach to patients suffering from schizoid disorders and simultaneously part of the anti-psychiatric movement. In the 1980s, E. Giddens reinterpreted ontological security in his structuration theo-ry. In the 2000s, Brent J. Steele and J. Mitzen pioneered the application of ontological security in international relations, focusing on global politics, conflict, and security studies. Recently, Nina S. Krickel-Choi has redefined ontological security, reviving some aspects of its theoretical foundation. Accordingly, the author assesses and interprets ontological security in terms of multilateralism and minilateralism with the aim of rethinking the para-digm of minilateral cooperation.

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Sui, Sophia, and Lei Yu. "Ontological Security in China–Pacific Islands Countries (PICs) Geopolitics." Journal of Island and Marine Studies 1, no. 1 (June 29, 2024): 110010. http://dx.doi.org/10.59711/jims.11.110010.

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The sufferings of “Old China” of being bullied and invaded by the colonial and imperialist powers in the “Chinese century of humiliation” and the experiences of the PRC of being militarily encircled and diplomatically isolated by the United States and its allies have constituted the basis of China’s ontological security. The article aims to explore China-PICs relationship from the perspectives of ontological security of China. It finds that this conception of ontological security results in China’s view of the existing hierarchical order dominated by the US-headed West as a threat to its security and prompts it to work together with other developing states to create a new international order that China deems more reasonable and fairer. The article concludes that China’s ontological security has posed a critical challenge to the hierarchical order in the South Pacific and the existing hierarchical relationship between the PICs and the former colonial powers that have to date kept the hierarchical relationship as the basis for their ontological security.

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Klose, Stephan. "Interactionist role theory meets ontological security studies: an exploration of synergies between socio-psychological approaches to the study of international relations." European Journal of International Relations 26, no. 3 (December 6, 2019): 851–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1354066119889401.

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This article argues that interactionist role theory holds much potential for complementing the ontological security literature in the field of International Relations. Concretely, the article argues that an interactionist role theory perspective promises to supplement the ontological security literature in at least two significant respects. First, it allows for a better understanding of how an international actor’s (capacity to provide) ontological security is tied to its ability to realize its ‘self’ in society through the making and playing of roles (and the subsequent casting of others). Second, it emphasizes how reflective intelligence enables an international actor to address destabilizing disconnects between its ‘self’-image and societal role-play, and to develop a measure of ontological resilience (a capacity to constructively engage with – and to recover from – ontological security challenges). To illustrate this argument, the article provides a case study, which explores, from an interactionist role theory perspective, how the European Union’s ontological security has been strengthened, challenged and restored in its interaction with its Southern and Eastern Neighbourhood.

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Kinnvall, Catarina, and Jennifer Mitzen. "Anxiety, fear, and ontological security in world politics: thinking with and beyond Giddens." International Theory 12, no. 2 (July 2020): 240–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s175297192000010x.

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Research on ontological security in world politics has mushroomed since the early 2000s but seems to have reached an impasse. Ontological security is a conceptual lens for understanding subjectivity that focuses on the management of anxiety in self-constitution. Building especially on Giddens, IR scholars have emphasized how this translates to a need for cognitive consistency and biographical continuity – a security of ‘being.’ A criticism has been its so-called ‘status quo bias,’ a perceived tilt toward theorizing investment in the existing social order. To some, an ontological security lens both offers social theoretic foundations for a realist worldview and lacks resources to conceptualize alternatives. We disagree. Through this symposium, we address that critique and suggest pathways forward by focusing on the thematic of anxiety. Distinguishing between anxiety and fear, we note that anxiety manifests in different emotions and leaves room for a range of political possibilities. Early ontological security scholarship relied heavily on readings of Giddens, which potentially accounts for its bias. This symposium re-opens the question of the relationship between anxiety and subjectivity from the perspective of ontological security, thinking with and beyond Giddens. Three contributions re-think anxiety in ontological security drawing on existentialist philosophy; two address limitations of Giddens' approach.

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Vasyura, S. A., and O. V. Nikitina. "ONTOLOGICAL SECURITY IN CONNECTION WITH THE ACTIVITY OF A SUBJECT OF LIFE." Bulletin of Udmurt University. Series Philosophy. Psychology. Pedagogy 31, no. 4 (December 28, 2021): 391–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.35634/2412-9550-2021-31-4-391-398.

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The article discusses the results of empirical research aiming to study ontological security of actors with low and high activity in life. Ontological security is seen as a life being which permanently embodies independent “I” in real-life contacts with people around and the world. Empirical research engages 119 first-year students at medical college. To study actor’s life activity, the authors applied A.A. Volochkov and A.Yu. Popov’s method of “Diagnostics of student activity” DAS 2, which is based on the theoretical model of actor’s life and includes three components of activity: need in interactions, self-regulation, and satisfaction. N.V. Kopteva’s psychometric method of studying ontological security "OS (PM)" and the method of studying ontological security, built on the principle of the semantic differential "OS (SD)" that were designed on the basis of the ontological security concept, and R. Laing’s alternative clinical conception of ontological insecurity, were also used in the research. To process the data the authors applied methods of mathematical statistics: descriptive statistics, cluster analysis (k-means method), Mann-Whitney U-test, correlation analysis (r-Pearson correlation coefficient). It is stated that students with higher activity differ from students with lower activity and show high ontological security resting on the ontological ground inside and beyond their own “I”, which takes place at two levels of its reflection - less differentiated experiences: confidence in mental “I”, in the body, in the world, in people, in individual value and more differentiated experiences: autonomy and vital contacts with the world.

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Oppermann, Kai, and Mischa Hansel. "The ontological security of special relationships: the case of Germany’s relations with Israel." European Journal of International Security 4, no. 1 (November 12, 2018): 79–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/eis.2018.18.

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AbstractThis article suggests studying special relationships in international politics from an ontological security perspective. It argues that conceptualising the partners to special relationships as ontological security seekers provides a promising theoretical angle to address gaps in our understanding of three important dimensions of such relations: their emergence and stability; the processes and practices of maintaining them; and the power relations within special relations. The article illustrates its theoretical argument in a case study on the German-Israeli relationship. The close partnership between the two countries that has developed since the Holocaust ranks as one of the most remarkable examples of special relationships in the international arena. We argue that foregrounding the ontological security that the special relationship provides, in particular for Germany, sheds important new light on how German-Israeli relations have developed. Specifically, we hold that Germany’s ontological security needs were already an important driver in establishing the relationship and have been a key stabiliser of it ever since; that the ontological security perspective can make sense of three interrelated practices of maintaining the ‘specialness’ of the relationship; and that the asymmetries between the ontological security needs of the two partners help account for Israel’s political leverage in the relationship.

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DÜZGÜN, ASLI NUR. "Ontological Security Theory in the Discipline of International Relations: A Concept- and Literature-Based Review." Ontological Security Theory in the Discipline of International Relations: A Concept- and Literature-Based Review 17, no. 37 (March 4, 2021): 44. https://doi.org/10.17752/guvenlikstrtj.905751.

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Abstract Together with various conceptual and practical discussions, this article descriptively examines the 'Ontological Security Theory' (OST), which is not well known enough in Turkey, but has long been studied in the Western International Relations (IR) literature. Ontological security, which is defined by Giddens as the "confidence human beings have in the continuity of their self-identity and in the constancy of the surrounding social and material environments of action", is linked to the routines, social interactions and stability in the lives of the societies and the states, similar to the individuals. At this point, it is seen that behind many domestic and foreign policy actions, there lies the phenomenon of ontological security or insecurity; and a significant amount of the discussions on the protracted conflicts and the irrational state behaviors can be analysed by means of socio-psychological base via this concept. This research both addresses the definitions of the concept in a deeply manner and presents various case studies related to the issue through a wide literature review. The aim is to contribute to the analytical enrichment of the future IR studies in Turkey on security and foreign policy, through these discussions. Thanks to its interdisciplinary structure and findings on the relationship between self-identity/the self and security, the ontological security approach exceedingly holds such a potential. Keywords: Ontological Security Theory, Ontological Insecurity, Self-identity, Routines, Anxiety.

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Croft, Stuart, and Nick Vaughan-Williams. "Fit for purpose? Fitting ontological security studies ‘into’ the discipline of International Relations: Towards a vernacular turn." Cooperation and Conflict 52, no. 1 (July 11, 2016): 12–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0010836716653159.

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The performance of International Relations (IR) scholarship – as in all scholarship – acts to close and police the boundaries of the discipline in ways that reflect power–knowledge relations. This has led to the development of two strands of work in ontological security studies in IR, which divide on questions of ontological choice and the nature of the deployment of the concept of dread. Neither strand is intellectually superior to the other and both are internally heterogeneous. That there are two strands, however, is the product of the performance of IR scholarship, and the two strands themselves perform distinct roles. One allows ontological security studies to engage with the ‘mainstream’ in IR; the other allows ‘international’ elements of ontological security to engage with the social sciences more generally. Ironically, both can be read as symptoms of the discipline’s issues with its own ontological (in)security. We reflect on these intellectual dynamics and their implications and prompt a new departure by connecting ontological security studies in IR with the emerging interdisciplinary fields of the ‘vernacular’ and ‘everyday’ via the mutual interest in biographical narratives of the self and the work that they do politically.

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Donnelly, Faye, and Brent J. Steele. "Critical Security History: (De)securitisation, ontological security, and insecure memories." European Journal of International Security 4, no. 2 (May 15, 2019): 209–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/eis.2019.5.

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AbstractThis article makes a case for incorporating the concept of ‘Critical Security History’ (CSH) into security studies. While history plays a powerful role in a cornucopia of security stories, we contend that it often goes unnoticed in scholarly research and teaching. Against this backdrop, we present a detailed guide to study how history is told and enacted in non-linear ways. To do this, the article outlines how CSH can contribute to securitisation and ontological security studies. As shown, this lens casts a new light on the legacies of (de)securitisation processes and how they are commemorated. It also illustrates that ontological security studies have only begun to call into question the concept of historicity. Working through these observations, the article marshals insights from Halvard Leira's notion of ‘engaged historical amateurism’ to entice scholars interested in ‘doing’ CSH. While acknowledging that this research agenda is hard to achieve, our study of the 2012 Sarajevo Red Line project helps to illustrate the added value of trying to ‘do’ CSH in theory and in practice. We end with some reflections for future research and continued conversations.

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Boubacar, Ibrahim, Marina Borisovna Budko, Mikhail Yurievich Budko, and Alexei Valerievich Guirik. "Ontological support of information security risk management." Proceedings of the Institute for System Programming of the RAS 33, no. 5 (2021): 41–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.15514/ispras-2021-33(5)-3.

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As a result of the work focused on improving the efficiency of the information security system through the development of an ontological model and an approach based on it to ensure information security (IS) risk management, a flexible result was obtained, which is designed to ensure an increase in the efficiency of the information security system by reducing the time spent on managerial decision-making. At the end of the work, a comparative analysis of existing approaches and techniques to information security risk management and the described approach was carried out. Based on the developed ontology and approach, highly intelligent information security risk management systems and the information security system can be created on its basis.

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Browning, Christopher S., and Pertti Joenniemi. "Ontological security, self-articulation and the securitization of identity." Cooperation and Conflict 52, no. 1 (July 11, 2016): 31–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0010836716653161.

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The concept of ontological security has made increasing headway within International Relations, in particular through its ability to offer alternative explanations of the forces underpinning security dilemmas and conflict in world politics. While welcoming the insights already provided by its application, this article argues that the concept’s use to date has been too much geared to questions of identity-related stability, with change viewed as disturbing and anxiety-inducing. In contrast, the article calls for a more open understanding that: (i) links ontological security to reflexivity and avoids collapsing together the concepts of self, identity and ontological security; (ii) avoids privileging securitization over desecuritization as a means for generating ontological security; and (iii) opens out the concept beyond a narrow concern with questions of conflict and the conduct of violence more towards the theorization of positive change.

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Akopov, Sergej. "Social Ideal: “Ontological Security” and “Politics of Loneliness”." Chelovek 32, no. 4 (2021): 5. http://dx.doi.org/10.31857/s023620070016683-8.

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The article deals with the problem of development of social ideal through the prism of the theory of ontological security. The research focuses on the relationship between ontological security and social anxiety about overcoming human loneliness. The author believes that Russian existentialism is capable of introducing a relatively new topic in the research of the mechanisms for enabling and sustaining ontological security. Namely, maintaining the ontological security of society is possible through specific models of the so-called “politics of loneliness”. Additionally, the article examines how the anthropological experience of loneliness can lead to self-objectification of the individual within the framework of the so called “vertical” politics of loneliness. In conclusion paper examines the question of whether loneliness can be overcomed without political objectification and what can be considered the opposite of negative “loneliness anxiety”.

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Wallis, Joanne. "Displaced security? The relationships, routines and rhythms of peacebuilding interveners." Cooperation and Conflict 55, no. 4 (September 9, 2020): 479–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0010836720954472.

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This article considers what treating individual international interveners engaged in peacebuilding work as referent objects can tell us about emplaced security. This is important because individual interveners are diverse, embodied agents who can impact the agency, peace and security of conflict-affected populations. It argues that applying an ontological security lens can provide a partial explanation for why interveners develop narratives and perform practices, including why they sometimes identify and behave in counterproductive, and even damaging, ways. The final section considers why an analytical focus on place is valuable, noting that place-based experiences and place-identities are formative of ontological security. It argues that treating interveners as a referent object provides opportunities to rethink the tendency to focus on home as the key site of emplacement in the ontological security literature. Building on this, it argues that examining the emplaced security of interveners invites us to examine the political nature and consequences of interveners’ physical and ontological security-seeking narratives and practices, including their creation of the material and ideational structures of intervention spaces and places.

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Silverstone, Roger. "Television, ontological security and the transitional object." Media, Culture & Society 15, no. 4 (October 1993): 573–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/016344393015004004.

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Rossdale, Chris. "Enclosing Critique: The Limits of Ontological Security." International Political Sociology 9, no. 4 (November 20, 2015): 369–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ips.12103.

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Kudriashova, A. V. "Ontological analysis of data information security threats." Scientific Papers (Ukrainian Academy of Printing) 2, no. 69 (2024): 21–28. https://doi.org/10.32403/1998-6912-2024-2-69-21-28.

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An Wang, Ju, Michael M. Guo, and Jairo Camargo. "An Ontological Approach to Computer System Security." Information Security Journal: A Global Perspective 19, no. 2 (April 8, 2010): 61–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19393550903404902.

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Della Sala, Vincent. "Narrating Europe: the EU's ontological security dilemma." European Security 27, no. 3 (July 3, 2018): 266–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09662839.2018.1497978.

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Browning, Christopher S. "Brexit, existential anxiety and ontological (in)security." European Security 27, no. 3 (July 3, 2018): 336–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09662839.2018.1497982.

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Kinnvall, Catarina. "Feeling ontologically (in)secure: States, traumas and the governing of gendered space." Cooperation and Conflict 52, no. 1 (July 8, 2016): 90–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0010836716641137.

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This article proceeds from a conceptual analysis of how ontological (in)security is constructed in terms of ‘security-of-being’ in which identity dynamics are explicated in socio-psychological terms. Of particular interest is how such dynamics transcend the boundaries of individual self/other constructions to define communities and states, and how these dynamics are transformed in times of trauma and crises. Narratives of everyday traumas are especially significant in creating notions of gendered space and (in)security, and for securitising subjectivities. This article thus investigates a number of theoretical propositions and developments involved in recent debates on the emotional dimension of ontological (in)security and its relationship to states, traumas and the securitisation of subjectivity. A gendered perspective of these debates allows us to analyse, and perhaps move beyond, some of the problematic aspects of the ontological security literature as originally developed by Laing and Giddens, and later on by sociologists and international relations scholars. Using the case of India as an example, the article shows how narrative reconstructions of traumas and collective memory shape gendered space and the search for ontological security, and how attempts to govern these events and practices impact on notions of gendered space and ontological insecurity.

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KAVUNCU, Ayşe, and Malang FAYE. "Ukrayna Krizi Bağlamında Putin Rusyası’nın Biyografik Anlatıları ve Rutinleri." Alınteri Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi 7, no. 1 (July 31, 2023): 57–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.30913/alinterisosbil.1297155.

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The article argues that Russia's decision to initiate an attack on Ukraine in February 2022 was an inevitable move for both its material and ontological security. By adopting an offensive stance and directly engaging in a conflict with a former Soviet country, Russia transformed the ongoing tension with the West into a full-fledged confrontation. At this juncture, the article primarily emphasizes that Russia's assault on Ukraine has solidified its "anti-Western" rhetoric, which serves as a crucial pillar of its ontological security. However, it asserts that while this aggression bolstered the anti-Western discourse to some extent, it also harmed Russia's ontological security in terms of other biographical narratives and routines. In essence, the article examines the historical development of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and delves beyond the concrete steps taken, exploring the dangers posed by such aggressive behavior to Russia's ontological security, particularly with regard to its biographical narratives and routines. Within this framework, the article posits that Russia's ontological security relies on contemporary biographical narratives and routines rooted in the discourse of the “continuing state”, "strong state", sovereign democracy," "anti-Westernism," "anti-globalism," and "neo-Eurasianism.".

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Greaves, Wilfrid. "Damaging Environments." Environment and Society 9, no. 1 (September 1, 2018): 107–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/ares.2018.090108.

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This article theorizes why Indigenous peoples’ security claims fail to be accepted by government authorities or incorporated into the security policies and practices of settler states. By engaging the concepts of securitization and ontological security, I explain how Indigenous peoples are unable to successfully “speak” security to the state. I argue that nondominant societal groups are unable to gain authoritative acceptance for security issues that challenge the dominant national identity. In effect, indigeneity acts an inhibiting condition for successful securitization because, by identifying the state and dominant society as the source of their insecurity, Indigenous peoples’ security claims challenge the ontological security of settler societies. Given the incommensurability of Indigenous and settler claims to authority over land, and the ontological relationship to land that underpins Indigenous identities and worldviews, the inhibiting condition is especially relevant with respect to security claims based on damage to the natural environment.

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Kinnvall, Catarina, and Jennifer Mitzen. "Anxiety, fear, and ontological security in world politics." International Theory 12, no. 2 (July 2020): 238–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1752971920000159.

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AbstractThis symposium addresses the role of anxiety, fear, and ontological (in)security in world politics. Proceeding from the recognition of the scholarly interest and multitude of approaches that characterize the field of ontological (in)security studies, the Symposium homes in on the relationship between anxiety and fear, and between anxiety, subjectivity, and agency. The Introduction critically engages with Anthony Giddens' understandings of ontological (in)security, in an effort to spur the revisiting, questioning, and, in some cases, leaving behind Giddens' assumptions in order to develop a more dynamic conception. In response, the first three contributions draw on resources in existentialist philosophy, especially Heidegger, Tillich, and Kierkegaard, to further unpack the relationship between anxiety and ontological (in)security. They do so by returning to the experiential moment of confronting existential anxiety, a moment that Giddens quickly closes down, to better grasp how existential anxiety resolves into an orientation to action. The final two essays, in comparison, bring anxiety ‘back in’ to locales where Giddens' theory occludes it: the unconscious and the international, thus arguing that emotional configurations other than fear are always possible.

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Shi, Huanhuan, Tao-Hsin Tung, Mei-xian Zhang, Chengwen Luo, Haixiao Chen, and Weizhen Wang. "Correlation Between Ontological Insecurity and Daily Epidemic Prevention Behavior Among Inpatients During the COVID-19 Pandemic." INQUIRY: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing 60 (January 2023): 004695802311523. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00469580231152320.

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This study evaluates inpatients’ ontological insecurity and daily epidemic prevention behavior during the pandemic and explores the factors influencing daily epidemic prevention behaviors. The outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in December 2019 caused a global public health crisis that has affected the very structure of society and the order of daily life. Ontological security is the ability to predict the impact of changes in social environments on personal security, such as during the pandemic. A cross-sectional study was used to collect data from 1185 inpatients of a hospital in Zhejiang, China, from July 11 to August 9, 2021. Our questionnaire recorded information on demographics, ontological insecurity, and daily epidemic prevention behaviors. The Mann-Whitney U test, Kruskal-Wallis H test, Spearman’s correlation analysis, and logistic regression analysis were used to determine the influencing factors of daily epidemic prevention behavior on ontological security. Results showed a negative correlation between inpatients’ ontological insecurity and daily epidemic prevention behavior (r = −.253, P < .001). The logistic regression analysis showed that the independent factors affecting daily epidemic prevention behavior include ontological insecurity (OR: 0.952; 95% CI: 0.937-0.968) ( P < .001), sex (OR: 1.292; 95% CI: 1.004-1.663), age (OR: 0.880; 95%: 0.790-0.980), education (OR: 1.307; 95% CI: 1.098-1.556), and occupation [famers vs civil servants, staff or professional (OR: 0.596; 95% CI: 0.374-0.949),other versus civil servants, staff, or professional (OR: 0.693; 95% CI: 0.503-0.953)] ( P < .05). Inpatients were shown to have good ontological security during the COVID-19 epidemic, younger patients, female patients, patients with stronger ontological security, patients with a higher educational level, and those who work in a fixed unit or organization showed higher levels of daily epidemic prevention behavior. Hospital managers should strengthen the intervention management of epidemic prevention behavior based on patient characteristics.

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Abramov, V. "SECURITY AS A TRANSGRESS: ONTOLOGICAL STATUS OF THE NATIONAL SECURITY PHENOMENON." Investytsiyi: praktyka ta dosvid, no. 15-16 (September 4, 2020): 116. http://dx.doi.org/10.32702/2306-6814.2020.15-16.116.

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Della Sala, Vincent. "Homeland security: territorial myths and ontological security in the European Union." Journal of European Integration 39, no. 5 (May 15, 2017): 545–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07036337.2017.1327528.

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Mitzen, Jennifer. "Ontological Security in World Politics: State Identity and the Security Dilemma." European Journal of International Relations 12, no. 3 (September 2006): 341–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1354066106067346.

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Gouveia, Tânia Maria de Oliveira Almeida, and Eduardo André Teixeira Ayrosa. "Identity, Consumption and Ontological Security: Trying to Live on the Edge of the Aesthetic Norm." Organizações & Sociedade 27, no. 92 (March 2020): 132–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1984-9270927.

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Abstract The body is an important element in identity management, and its transformations can, to a greater or lesser degree, be related to a reflexive project. Such identity projects are closely related to marketing stimuli, either aligning with or resisting its contents and values to keep a stable and secure identity narrative, building what Giddens (1984; 1991) calls ontological security. The aim of this study is to understand how body-related narratives and practices interact with market stimuli to produce a coherent and ontologically secure "self" that is capable of deviating from the dominant aesthetic standard. Discourse analysis of data indicated four instances that describe how such interaction happens: “struggles with self-demands”, “extreme disciplinary routines”, “self-confidence building”, and “partitions of the body”. Markets provide discursive objects that individuals use to mitigate their problems with deviating from the aesthetic norm, forming coherent narratives and ensuring their ontological security.

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Blesslin, Femi J., and P. Revathi. "Fabricating Stability: A Study of Ontological Security in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go." Context 12, no. 3 (June 5, 2025): 115–20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15553728.

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The research study analyses Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go through the lens of social psychology. The paper employs qualitative methods to explore the concept of ontological security, as introduced by R.D. Laing, and its broader implications in sociology, as discussed by Anthony Giddens. This theoretical framework examines how contemporary individuals develop and maintain ontological security within the constructed social setting. In addition, the study highlights the significance of Hailsham as a symbolic representation of a fabricated safe zone for its inhabitants. The institution’s invisible structures encourage students to comply and perceive themselves as emotionally stable. Art and sports activities in the institution emphasize the intimate emotional security and desire for identity and belonging in the artificially constructed space of a dystopian society. Therefore, this stabilized practice, routine, and ritual within the institution make students believe it is a safe place, thus avoiding rebellion. Therefore, this research sheds light on the importance of ontological security in understanding modern subjectivity, governance, and security. It provides future interdisciplinary applications, especially within literature, film studies, and social psychology.   Keywords: Ontological Security; Hailsham; Social Setting; Identity

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