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100			_aRIEMANN Malte
245			_aRemote warfare as “security of being”: _breading security force assistance as an ontological security routine/ _cMalte Riemann and Norma Rossi
260			_c2021
520			_aThis article analyses remote warfare from an ontological security perspective, arguing that remote warfare needs to be understood as a response to states’ internal self-identity needs. We develop this claim by analysing an emerging aspect of remote warfare: Security Force Assistance (SFA). SFA is aimed at building up the security forces of partners, sharing best practice, assisting in security sector reform, fostering collaboration, and overall contributing to conflict resolution. Focusing on the UK, we show how and why ontological security needs are a driving force behind the UK’s SFA program. We outline the UK’s specific autobiographical narrative, which we call a “global engagement identity,” explore the crises that induced ontological insecurity, and show how the UK’s SFA program can be read as a routinised foreign policy practice aimed at taming uncertainty and reinforcing ontological security. This paper makes three contributions. First, it analyses remote warfare through an ontological security framework, thereby moving the focus from “security-as-survival” to “security-of-being.” Second, it highlights the importance of SFA as a remote warfare tool. Third, it shows the centrality of ontological security in understanding UK defence policy.
598			_aREMOTE WARFARE, DEFENCE POLICY, NEWARTICLS
650			_aREMOTE WARFARE
650			_aDEFENCE POLICY
700			_aROSSI Norma
773			_gDefence Studies, Volume 21, Issue 4, 2021, page: 489-507
856			_uhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14702436.2021.1994392 _zClick here for full text
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