Research on ontological security in International Relations (IR) has grown significantly in
recent years. However, this scholarship is marked by conceptual ambiguity concerning the …

The growing literature on ontological security theory (OST) in international relations,
ontological security studies (OSS), is characterized by great internal diversity. This internal …

Why states sometimes risk their material interests and even physical security to keep a
certain identity narrative going? Think of Israel's continued occupation of the West Bank …

Why do self-representations of weakness pervade public discourse in self-identified great
powers? Moreover, why do they intersect with self-representations of greatness? Do such …

Strategic narratives are increasingly considered important for domestic and international
support for foreign policy. However, debate continues about why some strategic narratives …

This book explores how far messianism, the conviction that Russia has a special historical
destiny, is present in, and affects, Russian foreign policy. Based on extensive original …

This article argues that a renewed focus on how dominant international practices produce
ontological insecurity can help better orient ontological security studies (OSS) to injustice in …

One of the central debates in Ontological Security Studies (OSS) has been about the level-of-
analysis. While some authors focus on individuals, others have scaled up the concept and …

This article untangles competing conceptualisations of nostalgia and identifies a specific
form of collective‐restorative nostalgia as politically significant. We argue that the link …

In the twenty-first century world, the human race faces a range of challenges that require
global participation to overcome. Recent years have brought climate change and pandemics …