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Crisis and Ontological Insecurity - Serbia's Anxiety over Kosovo's Secession (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020) Loot Price: R2,323
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Crisis and Ontological Insecurity - Serbia's Anxiety over Kosovo's Secession (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Filip Ejdus

Crisis and Ontological Insecurity - Serbia's Anxiety over Kosovo's Secession (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)

Filip Ejdus

Series: Central and Eastern European Perspectives on International Relations

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This book develops a novel way of thinking about crises in world politics. By building on ontological security theory, this work conceptualises critical situations as radical disjunctions that challenge the ability of collective agents to 'go on'. These ontological crises bring into the realm of discursive consciousness four fundamental questions related to existence, finitude, relations and autobiography. In times of crisis, collective agents such as states are particularly attached to their ontic spaces, or spatial extensions of the self that cause collective identities to appear more firm and continuous. These theoretical arguments are illustrated in a case study looking at Serbia's anxiety over the secession of Kosovo. The author argues that Serbia's seemingly irrational and self-harming policy vis-a-vis Kosovo can be understood as a form of ontological self-help. It is a rational pursuit of biographical continuity and a healthy sense of self in the face of an ontological crisis triggered by the secession of a province that has been constructed as the ontic space of the Serbian nation since the late 19th century.

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Imprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin: Switzerland
Series: Central and Eastern European Perspectives on International Relations
Release date: July 2019
First published: 2020
Authors: Filip Ejdus
Dimensions: 210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 202
Edition: 1st ed. 2020
ISBN-13: 978-3-03-020666-6
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > History of other lands
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Comparative politics
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations > General
Books > History > History of other lands
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LSN: 3-03-020666-1
Barcode: 9783030206666

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