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East Asia’s Worsening Security Situation
Trend Report 2 / January 2023 by Nina C. Krickel-Choi
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Nina C. Krickel-Choi
Affiliated Researcher
Nina C. Krickel-Choi is an Affiliated Researcher at the oiip. She researches at the Lund University the role of border politics and climate policies in embodying the state and providing citizens with emotional security. Beyond that, her research interests include questions of state sovereignty and state personhood, climate security, International Relations theory, existentialism, and the international relations of East Asia. Nina received her PhD in International Relations from Stockholm University in 2022 and is also an associated fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs. She can be found on twitter @NCKC_IR.
Vita
Education
- PhD, International Relations, Stockholm University, Sweden, 2022
- MA, Global Studies, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan, 2017
- BSSc, International Relations & Peace Studies, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Beppu, Japan, 2015
Professional positions
- Post Doctoral Position at Lund University, 2023-
- Ernst Mach Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Austrian Institute for International Affairs (OIIP), 2022-2023
- Associated Research Fellow, Swedish Institute for International Affairs (Asia Programme), since 2017
- Doctoral Student, Department of Economic History & International Relations, Stockholm University, 2017-2022
Publications
Publications
- Krickel-Choi, N. C., Chen, C. C. & Bukh, A. (2022). Embodying the state differently in a Westphalian world: An ontological exit for the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands dispute. Third World Quarterly, online first. [link
- Krickel-Choi, N. C. (2022). State personhood and ontological security as a framework of existence: Moving beyond identity, discovering sovereignty. Cambridge Review of International Affairs, online first. [link]
- Krickel-Choi, N. C. (2022). The concept of anxiety in ontological security studies. International Studies Review, 24(3), viac013. [link]
- Krickel-Choi, N. C. (2022). The embodied state: Why and how physical security matters for ontological security. Journal of International Relations and Development, 25(1), 151-181. [link]
- Krickel-Choi, N. C. (2021). Rethinking ontological security theory: Conceptual investigations into ’self' and 'anxiety'. Doctoral dissertation, Stockholm University. [link]
- Gustafsson, K. & Krickel-Choi, N. C. (2020). Returning to the roots of ontological security: Insights from the existentialist anxiety literature. European Journal of International Relations, 26(3), 875-895. [link]