00000nam 2200000 4500 INLIS000000000002961 20221025093327 0010-0520002961 221025################|##########|#eng## 978-0-415-77276-1 eng 327.101 327.101 STE o Steele, Brent J Ontological Security in International Relations : Self-Identity and the IR State / Brent J. Steele London : Routledge, 2008 xiv, 215 p. ; 24 cm. Indeks : p.208 - 215 p.191 - 207 The central assertion of this book is that states pursue social actions to serve self-identity needs, even when these actions compromise their physical existence. Three forms of social action, sometimes referred to as "motives" of state behavior (moral, humanitarian, and honor-driven) are analyzed here through an ontological security approach. It develops an account of social action which interprets these behavior as fulfilling a nation-state's drive to secure self identity through time. The anxiety which consumes all social agents motivates them to secure their sense of being, and thus it posits that transformational possibilities exist in the "Self" of a nation-state. It consequently both challenges and complements realist, liberal, constructivist, and post-structural accounts to international politics. International Relations - Case Studies 10544/MKRI-P/XI-2008 10545/MKRI-P/XI-2008 10545/MKRI-P/XI-2008 10544/MKRI-P/XI-2008 10544/MKRI-P/XI-2008 10545/MKRI-P/XI-2008