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

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Cover Page Half Title Page Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Page Contents Page Acknowledgments Page List of Abbreviations and Acronyms Page 1 Revisiting State Personhood and World Politics: Identity, Personality and the IR Subject IR and Psychoanalysis: A Complicated Relationship Identity, Personality and International Relations Telling a Life: The South African State Person and Its Foreign Relationships Outline of the Book 2 The Ontological Status of the State: A Return to the Debate Are States People Too? Ringmar, Wendt and the RIS Forum Getting Beyond the Cartesian Subject States Are More Than Identities States as Real, Non-Human, Social Persons 3 Personality, Identity and the IR Subject: Toward a Theory of State Narcissism A Return to the Theoretical Concept of Narcissism The Self-Conscious Emotions and Their Role in Maintaining Moral Communities Narcissism, Ego Defenses and Coping Mechanisms State Narcissism and Ego Defenses: A Model 4 The Story of a State-Person: Identification, Individuation and the South African Self Shame and Humiliation in South Africa’s Relations With Negative Others Shame, Guilt and Pride in South Africa’s Relations With Positive Others A Fractured Self The South African Self and Its Relationship to the Other 5 Social Expectations and Personal Limitations: South Africa’s Responses to Shame, Humiliation, Guilt and Pride Denial, Projection, Undoing and South Africa’s Reactions to Libya and the Al-Bashir Saga Isolation, Identification and South Africa’s Africa Agenda Denial, Projection, Isolation and South Africa’s Responses to Xenophobia Everyday Narcissism, or Evidence of Pathology? Concluding Remarks on Ego Defenses and South Africa’s Recent Foreign Relations 6 State Narcissism and the Constraints of Reality: Concluding Remarks on “Schizophrenic” State Behaviors Where Do We Go From Here? List of Sources Index