This article appraises Professor Rumelili’s important central focus on anxiety by broadening the scope of the challenges the age of anxiety poses. With reference to recent events, such as the covid-19 pandemic and authoritarian politics, it argues that practices and strategies once thought to alleviate anxiety are now resources for it. The article concludes by calling for scholars to consider the possibility of anxiety as a structural feature of global politics, and organising our theoretical interventions, analyses, and politics around that constitutive feature. Ontological security, therefore, proves more elusive than ever before.

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无处可逃，无处可藏：2020 年代不可避免的恐惧

本文通过扩大焦虑年龄带来的挑战范围来评估 Rumelili 教授对焦虑的重要关注。参考最近发生的事件，例如 covid-19 大流行和威权政治，它认为曾经被认为可以减轻焦虑的做法和策略现在已成为它的资源。文章最后呼吁学者将焦虑视为全球政治的结构特征的可能性，并围绕该构成特征组织我们的理论干预、分析和政治。因此，本体安全性被证明比以往任何时候都更加难以捉摸。