Research areas

Nina C. Krickel-Choi is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Political Science at Lund University, Sweden.

Situated at the intersection of International Relations Theory, Critical Security Studies, and Political Psychology, her work covers the development and application of ontological security, the emotional dynamics of state sovereignty in interstate relations (particularly regarding territorial conflicts in East Asia), and the socio-psychological impact of the Anthropocene on contemporary security practices.

Current research

Nina is currently the PI of the project “Making sense of state climate (in)action: An existentialist study of how states imagine global climate change", funded for three years by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet). By drawing on insights from psychological and philosophical Existentialism, this project examines, inter alia, the effects of nuclear war imaginaries on contemporary visions of a climate changed world, and explores social practices related to the temporality of shared security imaginaries in the Anthropocene.