TY - BOOK AU - BACHLEITNER Kathrin TI - Ontological security as temporal security?: the role of 'significant historical others' in world politics PY - 2023/// KW - SECURITY KW - ONTOLOGICAL SECURITY KW - WORLD POLITICS N2 - This article explores the link between collective memory and state behaviour in international relations. In that regard, it develops a new concept entitled 'temporal security'. Building on the existing ontological security literature, it extends a temporal understanding to its underlying identity concept. Countries are now assumed to be temporal-security seekers vis-a-vis a 'significant historical other' from their past. Decision makers thus enter into a self-reflective conversation with their country's 'collective memory' when choosing courses of action UR - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00471178211045624 ER -