Ontological Security in International Relations - Self-Identity and the Ir State

This volume demonstrates that ontological security is a major motivating rationale for state action and inaction, challenging and complementing realist, liberal and constructivist accounts to international politics.

List of contents

1. Introduction 2. Identity, Morality, and Social Action 3. The Possibilities of a Self 4. The Power of Self-Identity: British Neutrality and the American Civil War 5. 'Death Before Dishonor': Belgian Self-Identity, Honor, and World War I 6. Haunted by the Past: Shame and NATO’s Kosovo Operation 7. The Future of Ontological Security in International Relations

About the author

Brent J. Steele is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Kansas, USA.

Summary

This volume demonstrates that ontological security is a major motivating rationale for state action and inaction, challenging and complementing realist, liberal and constructivist accounts to international politics.

Product details

• Authors: Brent J Steele, Brent J. Steele, Brent J. (University of Utah Steele
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.05.2014
• EAN: 9780415762151
• ISBN: 978-0-415-76215-1
• No. of pages: 230
• Series: New International Relations
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education