{"id":226275,"date":"2026-06-04T16:09:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T20:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/national-insecurity-what-happens-when-countries-start-to-lose-their-sense-of-identity\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T16:25:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T20:25:11","slug":"national-insecurity-what-happens-when-countries-start-to-lose-their-sense-of-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/national-insecurity-what-happens-when-countries-start-to-lose-their-sense-of-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"National insecurity: what happens when countries start to lose their sense of identity?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/national-insecurity-what-happens-when-countries-start-to-lose-their-sense-of-identity-284530\">National insecurity: what happens when countries start to lose their sense of identity?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/national-insecurity-what-happens-when-countries-start-to-lose-their-sense-of-identity-284530\">https:\/\/theconversation.com\/national-insecurity-what-happens-when-countries-start-to-lose-their-sense-of-identity-284530<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-04 16:09:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"theconversation.com\">theconversation.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The current international relations climate is filled with anxiety and danger due to significant shifts and uncertainties in global politics.<\/li>\n<li>Political theorists are turning to psychiatry to understand the concept of &#8220;ontological security,&#8221; which refers to a stable sense of identity and autonomy.<\/li>\n<li>States, like individuals, can experience ontological insecurity when their self-identity and purpose are significantly challenged.<\/li>\n<li>Russia&#8217;s search for ontological security following the collapse of the Soviet Union contributed to the aggressive policies leading to the invasion of Ukraine.<\/li>\n<li>The U.S. experienced a loss of ontological security post-Cold War, which was exacerbated by failures in Afghanistan and Iraq and led to policies like &#8220;America First&#8221; under Trump.<\/li>\n<li>Australia and New Zealand rely on the U.S. for security, but changing U.S. foreign policy and domestic issues create new challenges for them.<\/li>\n<li>The role of middle powers like Canada, Australia, and New Zealand in helping to stabilize the international order is increasingly important.<\/li>\n<li>The recovery of a shared sense of purpose and identity among these middle powers could help anchor a more stable international system.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National insecurity: what happens when countries start to lose their sense of identity? https:\/\/theconversation.com\/national-insecurity-what-happens-when-countries-start-to-lose-their-sense-of-identity-284530 Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":226276,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.theconversation.com\/files\/739922\/original\/file-20260604-57-aabqhl.jpg?ixlib=rb-4.1.0&rect=0%2C316%2C5680%2C2840&q=45&auto=format&w=1356&h=668&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226275"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226278,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226275\/revisions\/226278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}