Introduction to 2018 special issue of <i>European Security</i>: “ontological (in)security in the European Union”

Kinnvall, Catarina; Manners, Ian; Mitzen, Jennifer

doi:10.1080/09662839.2018.1497977

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“…In recent years, interactionist role theory (IRT) and the ontological security literature (OSL) have fuelled a socio-psychological turn in the discipline of International Relations (IR) (see, for instance, Browning and Joenniemi, 2017; Harnisch, 2011b, 2012; Kinnvall, 2004; Kinnvall et al, 2018; Kinnvall and Mitzen, 2017; McCourt, 2011, 2012, 2014; Steele, 2008; Wehner, 2015; Wehner and Thies, 2014; Zarakol, 2010). While closely related, and largely complementary, the two literatures remain, however, surprisingly disconnected.…”

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Interactionist role theory meets ontological security studies: an exploration of synergies between socio-psychological approaches to the study of international relations

Klose

2019

European Journal of International Relations

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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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Interactionist role theory meets ontological security studies: an exploration of synergies between socio-psychological approaches to the study of international relations

Klose

2019

European Journal of International Relations

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“…The scholarship in ontological security has conceptualised crises and the anxiety around them as posing existential questions to the integrity of the Self (see Ejdus, 2020;Kinnvall, 2004;Steele, 2008, Mitzen, 2006a2006b;2018). Further although mostly by focusing on identity narratives by states and the impact of crises on them, the burgeoning field has since adapted its approach to many different collectives, including the EU (Kinnvall, Manners & Mitzen, 2018). While narratives and crises are central to the literature on ontological security, it has yet to link it to the study of strategic narratives, which is the theoretical innovation I suggest here.…”

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The strategic narration of future identity during times of crises: evidence from the European Commission

Heinrichs

2021

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What kind of Europe the EU seeks to be, how it perceives itself and how it seeks to enact this Europe is a highly contentious issue and has powerful political stakes attached to its construction and realisation. This paper is specifically interested in how crises can constitute a compounded and expanded space for agency of political actors to forge identity narratives of the future. This paper draws on speeches by EC officials from 16 July 2019 to 7 July 2020, while coding along four analytical markers for crises as identified by Filip Ejdus (2020, p. 2, italics in original): “existence, finitude, relations and autobiography”. This article finds that while actors seek to create space for political agency by writing a moment of existential (external) crises to the EU’s project, they appear less equipped to use this moment politically. In this way, they co-construct a space potentially open to political creativity, but fail to fill this space with political creativity as to the future of the autobiographical narrative.

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“…Kinnvall, Manners ve Mitzen, Avrupa'da sömürge döneminden kalma ontolojik güven(siz)liklerin popülist siyaset için zemin hazırladığını vurgular. 76 Rumelili ve Subotić, makalelerinde, Avrupa'daki ontolojik güvensizlik durumunu, AB bütünleşme sürecinde kullanılan egemen anlatılar ile hala dönüşüm süreci içerisinde olan üye ülkelerin öz-anlatıları arasındaki çelişki ile açıklamışlardır. 77 Alkopher ve Sala'ya göre 2015 göçmen kriziyle zirveye çıkan bu popülist söylemler aslında AB ülkelerinin kendi ulusal öz-anlatıları, ontolojik güvenlik rutinleri ve göçmen politikaları ile paralellik göstermektedir.…”

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Uluslararası İlişkilerde Kimlik-Güvenlik İlişkisine Dair Yeni bir Paradigma: Ontolojik Güvenlik Teorisi

Rumelili¹,

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2020

Uluslararası İlişkiler Dergisi

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Geçtiğimiz yıllarda Ontolojik Güvenlik Teorisi (Ontological Security Theory-OGT) Uluslararası İlişkiler (Uİ) disiplininde kendine önemli bir yer edindi. Teori, devlet davranışlarını devletin öz-anlatıları üzerinden anlamlandırırken, bu öz-anlatıların yeniden üretilmesinin altında yatan sosyo-psikolojik dinamikleri de ortaya koydu. Özellikle, fiziksel güvenliğin öncüllüğünü tartışmaya açarak ve öz-anlatılar yoluyla devlet kimliğinin oluşması ve korunması süreçlerinde devlet-toplum arasındaki diyalektik ilişkiyi ortaya koyarak önemli katkıları oldu. Bu makalenin birincil amacı OGT'nin ana argümanlarını ve araştırma konularını Türkiye Uİ camiasına tanıtmaktır. Aynı zamanda OGT'nin mevcut eleştirel güvenlik kavramları ve kimlik yazını ile bağlantısının yetersizliğinden kaynaklanan eksiklikleri değerlendirilmektedir.

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Introduction to 2018 special issue of European Security: “ontological (in)security in the European Union”

Cited by 69 publications

References 62 publications

Interactionist role theory meets ontological security studies: an exploration of synergies between socio-psychological approaches to the study of international relations

Interactionist role theory meets ontological security studies: an exploration of synergies between socio-psychological approaches to the study of international relations

The strategic narration of future identity during times of crises: evidence from the European Commission

Uluslararası İlişkilerde Kimlik-Güvenlik İlişkisine Dair Yeni bir Paradigma: Ontolojik Güvenlik Teorisi

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