This comprehensive volume uses the concept of 'ontological security' to explore how narratives of European integration have been part of public discourses in the post-war period. It was originally published as a special issue of the journal European Security.

Catarina Kinnvall is Professor of Political Science at Lund University, Sweden. Her research is focused on global security, migration, religion and nationalism, with a particular emphasis on South Asia and Europe.

Ian Manners is Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. His research interests lie at the nexus of critical social theory and the study of the European Union in planetary politics, including global society, economy, environment, conflict, and politics.

Jennifer Mitzen is Associate Professor of Political Science at The Ohio State University, USA, with research interests in international relations theory, global governance, and international security.

1. Introduction: Ontological (in)security in the European Union
Catarina Kinnvall, Ian Manners and Jennifer Mitzen

2. Narrating Europe: the EU's ontological security dilemma
Vincent Della Sala

3. Breaking with Europe's pasts: memory, reconciliation, and ontological (In)security
Bahar Rumelili

4. Political memory, ontological security, and Holocaust remembrance in post-communist Europe
Jelena Subotic

5. Socio-psychological reactions in the EU to immigration: from regaining ontological security to desecuritisation
Tal Dingott Alkopher

6. Brexit, existential anxiety and ontological (in)security
Christopher S. Browning

7. The market for ontological security
Elke Krahmann

8. Countering hybrid warfare as ontological security management: the emerging practices of the EU and NATO
Maria Mälksoo

9. Anxious community: EU as (in)security community
Jennifer Mitzen