By Steven C. Roach
This cutting edge new Reader offers scholars, students, and practitioners with a complete assessment of crucial works of serious idea and demanding diplomacy (IR) idea, together with the writings of Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Weber, Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse, Habermas, Linklater, and Honneth, between others. Steven Roach frames each one bankruptcy exhibiting the key tensions of 4 classes of the extension of severe conception into serious IR conception. This wealthy narrative, telling the tale of the way severe conception entered into diplomacy idea, seeks to deepen the reader's historic and sociological figuring out of the emancipatory undertaking of severe IR thought. Postmodernist and feminist texts are integrated to offer context to the query of even if the self-discipline is in problem or is operating towards a cohesive and reflexive framework.
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Susser (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006), 45–70. 33. George Bonanno, Sandro Galea, Angela Bucciarelli, and David Vlahov, “Psychological Resilience After Disaster: New York City in the Aftermath of the September 11 Terrorist Attack,” Psychological Science 17, no. 3 (2006): 181–186. 34. John Updegraff, Roxane Silver, and E. Alison Holman, “Searching for and Finding Meaning in Collective Trauma: Results from a National Longitudinal Study of the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 95, no.
Distal terror management responses were apparent in nearly every aspect of American life, and were especially prominent in religious and political arenas. 12 Patriotism also peaked: sales of American flags flourished, and songs like “God Bless America” and “America the Beautiful” were omnipresent. , the destruction of mosques in Texas, Indiana, and Ohio; the slaying of Balbir Singh Soddhi, an Indian Sikh, at a gas station in Mesa, AZ). 13 Such surges in cultural identification following national tragedy are typically accompanied and fomented by the presence of a “charismatic” leader— one who confidently and optimistically affirms the righteousness of one’s cultural values and promises hope and bold action to overcome terror and evil.
2. Jeff Greenberg, Thomas Pyszczynski, and Sheldon Solomon, “The Causes and Consequences of a Need for Self-esteem: A Terror Management Theory,” in Public Self and Private Self, ed. R. F. Baumeister (New York: SpringerVerlag, 1986), 189–212. 3. Thomas Pyszczynski, Sheldon Solomon, and Jeff Greenberg, In the Wake of 9/11: The Psychology of Terror (Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 2003). 4. Jeff Greenberg, Sheldon Solomon, and Jamie Arndt, “A Basic but Uniquely Human Motivation: Terror Management,” in Handbook of Motivation Science, ed.