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In sociology, ontological security is a stable mental state derived from a sense of continuity in regard to the events in one's life. [1] Anthony Giddens (1991) refers to ontological security as a sense of order and continuity in regard to an individual's experiences.
Political ontology shows how reality is enacted as equivocal or as a “communicative disjuncture that takes place, not between those who share a common world but rather those whose worlds or ontologies are different”. [6] This communicative disjuncture usually occurs when an ontology or world is presupposed as universal. Because then the ...
Ken Booth FBA (born 29 January 1943) [where?] is a British international relations theorist, and the former E. H. Carr Professor of International Politics at UCW Aberystwth. [ 1 ] He has been a visiting researcher at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island ; at Dalhousie University in Halifax , Canada; and at Cambridge University .
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The International Political Sociology approach to security is particularly influenced by a Foucaultian reading of policing as a form of governmentality, as well as insights from the work of Pierre Bourdieu. [citation needed] The "sociology of security" is the scientific study of the relationships between community and security.
In the 1970s, scholars of world politics started drawing on new research in cognitive psychology to explain decisions to cooperate or compete in international relations. Cognitive psychology had assigned cognition a central role in the explanation of human decision-making.
The beginning of the neo-Gramscian perspective can be traced to York University professor emeritus Robert W. Cox's article "Social Forces, States and World Orders: Beyond International Relations Theory" in Millennium 10 (1981) 2 and "Gramsci, Hegemony and International Relations: An Essay in Method", published in Millennium 12 (1983) 2.
Critical terrorism studies (CTS) applies a critical theory approach rooted in counter-hegemonic and politically progressive critical theory to the study of terrorism. [1] With links to the Frankfurt School of critical theory and the Aberystwyth School of critical security studies, CTS seeks to understand terrorism as a social construction, or a label, that is applied to certain violent acts ...