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The concept of ontological security has been applied in international relations. It has been argued that states seek to ensure their ontological security (the security of self and self-conception), in addition to their pursuit of physical security (such as protecting the territorial integrity of the state). To ensure their ontological security ...
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 .
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 ...
The security dilemma is the core assumption of defensive realism. According to Kenneth Waltz, because the world does not have a common government and is "anarchic", survival is the main motivation of states.
World Politics is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering political science and international relations. It is published by Johns Hopkins University Press on behalf of the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies .
[2] [3] According to Didier Bigo an IPS approach to security argues that both security and insecurity are the result of an (in)securitization process based on a speech act calling for a politics of exception and a general frame linked to the existence of transnational bureaucracies and private agents managing insecurity that compete to frame ...
His 1995 article "Rationalist Explanations for War" is the most assigned journal article in International Relations graduate training at U.S. universities. [25] [3] The bargaining model of war has been described as "the dominant framework used in the study of war in the international relations field." [26]
Browning and McDonald argue that critical security studies entails three main components: the first is a rejection of conventional (particularly realist) approaches to security, rejecting or critiquing the theories, epistemology, and implications of realism, such as the total focus on the role of the state when approaching questions of security ...