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National insecurity: what happens when countries start to lose their sense of identity?

By Nicholas Ross Smith, Senior Lecturer in International Relations, University of Waikato

Borrowed from psychiatry, the term “ontological security” describes how nations understand themselves and their place in the world – and how it can break down.

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