International Politics and Inner Worlds : Masks of Reason under Scrutiny / Kurt Jacobsen.

Introduction: Politics All the Way Down; Rationality and Resistance; The Chapters; Perestroika and American Political Science; The Perestroikan Challenge; How to Look like a Science; Conclusion; Dueling Constructivisms: A Post-Mortem on the Ideas Debate in Mainstream IR; Rationality and Contexts; Psychology, Science and 'Silences'; Reconnoitering the Ideas Debate; Going Conventional: A Critique; On Theories of Contexts; Conclusion; Why Do States (Bother to) Deceive? Managing Trust at Home and Abroad; Defining Deceit; The Utility of Deceit; Realpolitik, and How it Plays in Peoria

Appeasement and Unpreparedness ReconsideredCredibility and Dissent; Vietnam and the 'Bounds of Reasonable Dishonesty'; Iran-Contra; Post-911; Conclusion; COIN Flips: Counterinsurgency Theory and American IR; Research Parameters; Vietnam as 'Ironic Victory'; Military and Intellectual Pacifiers; Summers' Discontent, Colby's Complaint; Reasons Why; After Tet; The Home Front; Conclusion; Addendum: Counterinsurgency Chic; Why Freud Matters: Psychoanalysis and IR Revisited; Psychoanalytic Triggers; Freud and the Three Images; Self and Society; Psychoanalysis and the 'Problem' of the External

Stimulus and Conditional ResponsePsychiatrists, Theologians and Constructivists; Psyche, Self-interest and Warfare; Two, Three, Many Vietnam Syndromes; 911 and the Mismanagement of Fear; Conclusion; Addendum: Eli Zaretsky's Freud; The Mystique of Genetic Correctness; Raw Eugenics; Tainted Breeds, Tainted Deeds; Degeneration and Its Discontents; Home of the Free and 'Life Unworthy of Life'; What New World?; Loose Ends: Considerations on the Aftermaths of the Celtic Tiger and the Northern 'Troubles'; Conclusion; Conclusion: Algren, Academe and Conformity; Index