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Breaking with Europe's pasts: memory, reconciliation, and ontological (In) security

dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of International Relations
dc.contributor.kuauthorRumelili, Bahar
dc.contributor.schoolcollegeinstituteCollege of Administrative Sciences and Economics
dc.date.accessioned2024-11-09T22:50:34Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractThe European Union is widely credited for consolidating a democratic "security community" in Europe, and bringing about a definitive break with war-torn and authoritarian/totalitarian pasts in many European countries. Drawing on recent discussions in ontological security studies, this article points out that these radical breaks may have come at the expense of ontological insecurity at the societal and individual levels in Europe. While conventional teleological narratives often treat reconciliation and breaking with the past as automatic by-products of European integration, ontological security theory calls for greater attention to the societal tensions and anxieties triggered by these transformations and how they are being managed -more or less successfully - through reconciliation dynamics and memory politics in different societal settings. Illustrating the variation in a number of cases, this article claims that a systematic comparative analysis of the different dynamics of reconciliation and memory politics in different European societies is central to analyzing European integration from an ontological security perspective.
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dc.description.indexedbyScopus
dc.description.issue3
dc.description.openaccessNO
dc.description.publisherscopeInternational
dc.description.sponsoredbyTubitakEuN/A
dc.description.volume27
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/09662839.2018.1497979
dc.identifier.eissn1746-1545
dc.identifier.issn0966-2839
dc.identifier.quartileQ2
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85065698555
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/09662839.2018.1497979
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14288/6682
dc.identifier.wos441449600003
dc.keywordsEU
dc.keywordsEurope
dc.keywordsSecurity community
dc.keywordsOntological (in)security
dc.keywordsMemory
dc.keywordsReconciliation
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherRoutledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd
dc.relation.ispartofEuropean Security
dc.subjectArea studies
dc.subjectInternational relations
dc.subjectPolitical science
dc.titleBreaking with Europe's pasts: memory, reconciliation, and ontological (In) security
dc.typeJournal Article
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