Book Review: Crisis and ontological insecurity – Serbia’s anxiety over Kosovo’s secession

Abstract

Security is one of the most important facets of human existence, on a collective and individual level. Since the 1990s, the moulding of the security field resulted in the conceptualisation of a new security paradigm which incorporates the perspective of both states and individuals. The new approaches which emerged within this paradigmatic change recognised the significance of societal security for states and led to the development of the concept of ontological security—the security of the state’s self-identity. It introduced the concept of ontological security posited by Anthony Giddens to the field of International Relations (IR), allowing us to explore connection between individuals, society and larger entities such as states’ Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe