Political Science
Areas of Research and Expertise
- International Relations
- International Relations Theory
- Security Studies
- Socio-Psychological Approaches to International Relations
- Ontological Security and Existentialism
- East Asian International Relations (esp. Japan, Korea, Taiwan)
- State Sovereignty
- Climate Security
Publications
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The emotional politics of sovereignty: On dignity, state personhood, and kidnappings
Nina C. Krickel-Choi, Minseon Ku
(2026) European Journal of International Security
ArticleGrappling with the Climate Crisis in IR : Existentially, Psychologically, Interdisciplinarily
Nina C. Krickel-Choi
(2025) Czech Journal of International Relations, 60 p.7-31
ArticleState personhood and ontological security as a framework of existence: moving beyond identity, discovering sovereignty
Nina C. Krickel-Choi
(2024) Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 37 p.3-21
ArticleDefending the islands, defending the self: Taiwan, sovereignty and the origin of the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands dispute as ontological security-seeking
Nina C. Krickel-Choi, Ching-chang Chen
(2024) The Pacific Review, 37 p.301-327
ArticleReimagining IR’s biomedical foundations : East Asian medicine and the need for cosmological plurality
Ching Chang Chen, Nina C. Krickel-Choi
(2024) Cambridge Review of International Affairs
ArticleOntological Security and the Emotional Significance of Sovereignty
Nina C. Krickel-Choi
(2023) Variations on Sovereignty: Contestations and Transformations from around the World , p.68-86
Book chapterRevisiting state personhood and world politics: identity, personality and the IR subject
Nina C Krickel-Choi
(2023) International Affairs, 99 p.841-843
Review (Book/Film/Exhibition/etc.)The Concept of Anxiety in Ontological Security Studies
Nina C. Krickel-Choi
(2022) International Studies Review, 24
ArticleThe embodied state: why and how physical security matters for ontological security
Nina C. Krickel-Choi
(2022) Journal of International Relations and Development, 25 p.159-181
ArticleEmbodying the state differently in a Westphalian world: an ontological exit for the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands dispute
Nina C. Krickel-Choi, Ching-chang Chen, Alexander Bukh
(2022) Third World Quarterly , p.1-19
ArticleRethinking Ontological Security Theory: Conceptual Investigations into 'Self' and 'Anxiety'
Nina C. Krickel-Choi
(2021)
Doctoral Thesis (compilation)Returning to the roots of ontological security: insights from the existentialist anxiety literature
Karl Gustafsson, Nina C. Krickel-Choi
(2020) European Journal of International Relations, 26
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Introduction
Nina is a postdoctoral researcher and PI of the project "Making sense of state climate (in)action: An existentialist study of how states imagine global climate change" funded by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet). She received her PhD in International Relations in 2022 from Stockholm University where she defended a dissertation on ontological security theory. While Nina's expertise lies in security studies, East Asian international relations and state sovereignty, she currently pursues research related to climate security, political imaginaries and existentialist sense-making.