Bianca Naude Author

Bianca Naude is Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of the Free State, South Africa. Her research is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing on her training in anthropology, sociology, political science and theory of literature. She has contributed scholarly articles and book chapters on ontological security theory as a novel approach to terrorism studies, foreign policy and regionalization as tools of resistance against Western hegemony, South Africa’s search for ontological security in its foreign relations, and the role of emotions in South African foreign policy.