ONTOLOGICAL INSECURITY AND REGIONALISM IN THE MIDDLE EAST

The concept of ontological security has been used in political science and IR literature since the mid-2000s. In this book, the concept of institutional ontological security has been examined in general and an evaluation has been made for the sub-regional classifications of the Middle East countries. As it is known, according to the science of psychology, if the conditions prevent and invalidate the continuation of the established behavior patterns and self- narratives of the individual or cause a radical change in these patterns and narratives, this situation will cause the suppressed basic ontological problems to come to the surface.