Crisis and Ontological Insecurity

This book develops a novel way of thinking about crises in world politics. By building on ontological security theory, this work conceptualises critical situations as radical disjunctions that challenge the ability of collective agents to ‘go on’. These ontological crises bring into the realm of discursive consciousness four fundamental questions related to existence , finitude , relations and autobiography . In times of crisis, collective agents such as states are particularly attached to their