Crisis and ontological insecurity : Serbia's anxiety over Kosovo's secession / Filip Ejdus.
Ejdus, Filip, author.
2020
DR1976.K67 E33 2020
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Title Crisis and ontological insecurity : Serbia's anxiety over Kosovo's secession / Filip Ejdus.
Author Ejdus, Filip, author.
ISBN 9783030206673 (electronic book)
303020667X (electronic book)
3030206661
9783030206666
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xiv, 202 pages)
Call Number DR1976.K67 E33 2020
Dewey Decimal Classification 327.17094971
Summary 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-à-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. Filip Ejdus is Associate Professor of Security Studies in the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Belgrade, Serbia.-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 07, 2019).
Series Central and Eastern European perspectives on international relations series.
Available in Other Form Crisis and Ontological Insecurity : Serbia's Anxiety over Kosovo's Secession.
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1. Introduction
2. Crisis, Anxiety and Ontological Insecurity
3. The Construction of Kosovo as Serbia's Ontic Space
4. Disintegration of Yugoslavia and Serbia's Anxiety over Kosovo
5. Critical Situation: Kosovo's Declaration of Independence
6. Dissonance and Avoidance: Serbia's Quest for a New Normal
7. Conclusion.

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