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2. Crisis, Anxiety and Ontological Insecurity

Author : Filip Ejdus

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The central assumption within the realist canon of International Relations (IR) is that the primary goal of states is to achieve physical security, defined in terms of physical survival and power. This has been challenged by the Ontological Security Theory (OST), which is based on a premise that actors in world politics are often ready to compromise physical security and other important material gains in order to protect their sense of continuity in the world.

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Title: Crisis, Anxiety and Ontological Insecurity
Author: Filip Ejdus
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Crisis and Ontological Insecurity
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-20666-6

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-20667-3

Copyright Year: 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20667-3_2

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