Revisiting State Personhood and World Politics Identity Personality and the IR Subject 1st Edition by Bianca Naude 9781000509212 1000509214

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• ISBN 10: 1000509214
• ISBN 13: 9781000509212
• Author: Bianca Naude

Breathing fresh air into debates surrounding foreign policy and interstate relations, Bianca Naude presents a holistic theory of states as collectives of people that cannot be reduced to their individual constituents. Moving among current research on the ontological status of the state alongside important arguments in support of the state personhood thesis, Naude begins by exploring Freud’s personality theory and the ways in which this theory has evolved over time in response to newer insights from the field of experimental psychology. Recognizing that Freud’s work is in many ways outdated, she considers more recent literature on narcissism as an aspect of self-esteem rather than a form of psychopathology, drawing specifically on Kohut’s expansion of the concept of narcissism as a normal feature of personality development. Using the South African state as a case study, Naude demonstrates the various ways in which the state presents itself to the outside world on the one hand, and how it wishes to see itself on the other. She further considers how narcissistic defenses help protect the state’s ego from criticism and self-judgments. Revisiting State Personhood and World Politics will help readers understand how the state sees itself, why or when the state experiences shame, humiliation, guilt or pride, and how it responds to these self-conscious emotions. It will be a valuable resource to researchers and students of International Relations.

Table contents:

1 Revisiting State Personhood and World Politics: Identity, Personality and the IR Subject

2 The Ontological Status of the State: A Return to the Debate

3 Personality, Identity and the IR Subject: Toward a Theory of State Narcissism

4 The Story of a State-Person: Identification, Individuation and the South African Self

5 Social Expectations and Personal Limitations: South Africa’s Responses to Shame, Humiliation, Guilt and Pride

6 State Narcissism and the Constraints of Reality: Concluding Remarks on “Schizophrenic” State Behaviors

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