Kurt Jacobsen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3779997 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kurt Jacobsen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kurt |
| FAMILY NAME | Jacobsen |
| SIGNATURE | JACOBSEN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5363-6078 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Authoritarianism in All its Guises: Perspectives on Right, Left, and Center
Psychoanalysis, Science and Power: Essays in Honour of Robert Maxwell Young
The devil his due: Psychohistory and psychosocial studies
Reconsidering American Power: Pax Americana and the Social Sciences
Postcolonial studies, postmodern studies, even posthuman studies emerge, and intellectuals demand that social sciences be remade to address fundamentals of the human condition, from human rights to global environmental crises. Since these fields owe so much to American state sponsorship, is it easier to reimagine the human and the modern than to properly measure the pervasive American influence? Reconsidering American Power offers trenchant studi…
Paradigmatic saboteurs: Eriksonian psychohistory and its vicissitudes
This article revisits and re-evaluates the Eriksonian branch of psychohistorians, whose influence peaked in the early 1970s before seemingly and perhaps unjustly falling out of sight. Why? Should we abandon these scholars altogether, as many have, and start over with a primarily British discipline called psychosocial studies? Or is there and should there be a bridge worth the trouble of crossing between the American psychohistorians and psychosoc…
International Politics and Inner Worlds: Masks of Reason under Scrutiny
Why Do States (Bother to) Deceive? Managing Trust at Home and Abroad
Loose Ends: Considerations on the Aftermaths of the Celtic Tiger and the Northern 'Troubles
Coin flips: American international relations and counter-insurgency
The essay examines the recent rehabilitation of counter-insurgency doctrine, especially as conducted by third party interveners. The advent of the refurbished US (United States) Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency field manual, a volume with scholarly self-presentation, is the focal point. This essay is concerned with the dubious bases of the doctrinal justifications driving recent US interventions. The Vietnam War turns out to be the crucial cas…
Why Freud matters: Psychoanalysis and international relations revisited
Scholars of politics, not just international relations, have eschewed the discipline of psychoanalysis. The renewed attacks on Freud and his fractious followers over the last generation apparently discouraged political scientists from exploring the usefulness of psychoanalytic methods. This essay asks whether, and under what circumstances, psychoanalysis can be a useful interpretive approach. What is the significance in human behavior of the unco…
Diagnostic politics: The curious case of Kanner’s syndrome
The consensus US (not European) narrative regarding diagnosis and aetiology of autism posits that misguided ‘parent-blaming’ psychogenic causes were supplanted due to solid research proving the presence of organic causes. Yet, upon scrutiny, it is questionable that the high-functioning, often high-IQ minority — about 15% of those labelled autistic — whose condition Kanner in 1943 first dubbed ‘infantile autism’ were absorbed into the ‘autistic sp…
Wasted opportunities? The Great Northern Telegraph Company and the wireless challenge
When the Great Northern Telegraph Company in 1913 bought the exclusive rights to exploit the Valdemar Poulsen Arc Transmitter it was not because the company wanted to take advantage of wireless telegraphy. Instead the company decided not to develop or implement the arc transmitter – a decision that has been described as a ‘wasted opportunity’. This article, however, explores the behaviour of Great Northern and argues that there was little else th…
Freud's foes
Counter-Reform in the American Welfare State: Ideas, Institutions, and Progressive Taxation
The Nixon/Ford years were a pivotal period when severe fiscal problems emerged whose resolutions constrained the ambit of social policy afterward. A shared diagnosis of economic challenges produced divergent effects in the electoral fortunes of the major political parties and set the stage for an upward redistribution of wealth. Horizontal equity became synonymous with overall tax equity. This article examines how economic ideas acquire political…
Affirmative Action: A Critical Reconnaissance
The Angst of Affirmative Action: A Review Essay
British Ulster: Is Peace A Rational Choice
WGBH makes history
Wartime censors, as Phillip Knightley's The First Casualty reminds us, perform a twofold mission: (l) deny vital data to the enemy and (2) conceal from the citizenry potentially perturbing news as to how their leaders are conducting the mayhem at the front. This protective zeal tends to be habit forming and can outlast formal hostilities. Take the case of two historians who tried to pry past the “received wisdom and the received ignorance” about …
Microchips and Public Policy – The Political Economy of High Technology
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Sponsorship Activities in the UN Negotiating Process
Sponsorships in the United Nations: A System Analysis
We shall mainly be concerned with the second, although the first also may serve important functions.1 Our discussion will center around two aspects. The first is system maintenance, where we will discuss some requirements. Closely tied to this aspect is that of legitimacy, which might be considered even more important in the international system than in national ones, since the structure of authority is not vertical, but horizontal in the interna…
Voting Behaviour of the Nordic Countries in the General Assembly
Voting Behaviour of the Nordic Countries in the General Assembly
Why Freud matters: Psychoanalysis and international relations revisited
Scholars of politics, not just international relations, have eschewed the discipline of psychoanalysis. The renewed attacks on Freud and his fractious followers over the last generation apparently discouraged political scientists from exploring the usefulness of psychoanalytic methods. This essay asks whether, and under what circumstances, psychoanalysis can be a useful interpretive approach. What is the significance in human behavior of the unco…
Wasted opportunities? The Great Northern Telegraph Company and the wireless challenge
When the Great Northern Telegraph Company in 1913 bought the exclusive rights to exploit the Valdemar Poulsen Arc Transmitter it was not because the company wanted to take advantage of wireless telegraphy. Instead the company decided not to develop or implement the arc transmitter – a decision that has been described as a ‘wasted opportunity’. This article, however, explores the behaviour of Great Northern and argues that there was little else th…
Microchips and Public Policy – The Political Economy of High Technology
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Sponsorships in the United Nations: A System Analysis
We shall mainly be concerned with the second, although the first also may serve important functions.1 Our discussion will center around two aspects. The first is system maintenance, where we will discuss some requirements. Closely tied to this aspect is that of legitimacy, which might be considered even more important in the international system than in national ones, since the structure of authority is not vertical, but horizontal in the interna…
Paradigmatic saboteurs: Eriksonian psychohistory and its vicissitudes
This article revisits and re-evaluates the Eriksonian branch of psychohistorians, whose influence peaked in the early 1970s before seemingly and perhaps unjustly falling out of sight. Why? Should we abandon these scholars altogether, as many have, and start over with a primarily British discipline called psychosocial studies? Or is there and should there be a bridge worth the trouble of crossing between the American psychohistorians and psychosoc…
Loose Ends: Considerations on the Aftermaths of the Celtic Tiger and the Northern 'Troubles
Coin flips: American international relations and counter-insurgency
The essay examines the recent rehabilitation of counter-insurgency doctrine, especially as conducted by third party interveners. The advent of the refurbished US (United States) Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency field manual, a volume with scholarly self-presentation, is the focal point. This essay is concerned with the dubious bases of the doctrinal justifications driving recent US interventions. The Vietnam War turns out to be the crucial cas…
Voting Behaviour of the Nordic Countries in the General Assembly
Sponsorships in the United Nations: A System Analysis
We shall mainly be concerned with the second, although the first also may serve important functions.1 Our discussion will center around two aspects. The first is system maintenance, where we will discuss some requirements. Closely tied to this aspect is that of legitimacy, which might be considered even more important in the international system than in national ones, since the structure of authority is not vertical, but horizontal in the interna…
Sponsorship Activities in the UN Negotiating Process
Microchips and Public Policy – The Political Economy of High Technology
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
WGBH makes history
Wartime censors, as Phillip Knightley's The First Casualty reminds us, perform a twofold mission: (l) deny vital data to the enemy and (2) conceal from the citizenry potentially perturbing news as to how their leaders are conducting the mayhem at the front. This protective zeal tends to be habit forming and can outlast formal hostilities. Take the case of two historians who tried to pry past the “received wisdom and the received ignorance” about …
British Ulster: Is Peace A Rational Choice
The Angst of Affirmative Action: A Review Essay
Affirmative Action: A Critical Reconnaissance
Counter-Reform in the American Welfare State: Ideas, Institutions, and Progressive Taxation
The Nixon/Ford years were a pivotal period when severe fiscal problems emerged whose resolutions constrained the ambit of social policy afterward. A shared diagnosis of economic challenges produced divergent effects in the electoral fortunes of the major political parties and set the stage for an upward redistribution of wealth. Horizontal equity became synonymous with overall tax equity. This article examines how economic ideas acquire political…
Freud's foes
Diagnostic politics: The curious case of Kanner’s syndrome
The consensus US (not European) narrative regarding diagnosis and aetiology of autism posits that misguided ‘parent-blaming’ psychogenic causes were supplanted due to solid research proving the presence of organic causes. Yet, upon scrutiny, it is questionable that the high-functioning, often high-IQ minority — about 15% of those labelled autistic — whose condition Kanner in 1943 first dubbed ‘infantile autism’ were absorbed into the ‘autistic sp…
Wasted opportunities? The Great Northern Telegraph Company and the wireless challenge
When the Great Northern Telegraph Company in 1913 bought the exclusive rights to exploit the Valdemar Poulsen Arc Transmitter it was not because the company wanted to take advantage of wireless telegraphy. Instead the company decided not to develop or implement the arc transmitter – a decision that has been described as a ‘wasted opportunity’. This article, however, explores the behaviour of Great Northern and argues that there was little else th…
Why Freud matters: Psychoanalysis and international relations revisited
Scholars of politics, not just international relations, have eschewed the discipline of psychoanalysis. The renewed attacks on Freud and his fractious followers over the last generation apparently discouraged political scientists from exploring the usefulness of psychoanalytic methods. This essay asks whether, and under what circumstances, psychoanalysis can be a useful interpretive approach. What is the significance in human behavior of the unco…
Coin flips: American international relations and counter-insurgency
The essay examines the recent rehabilitation of counter-insurgency doctrine, especially as conducted by third party interveners. The advent of the refurbished US (United States) Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency field manual, a volume with scholarly self-presentation, is the focal point. This essay is concerned with the dubious bases of the doctrinal justifications driving recent US interventions. The Vietnam War turns out to be the crucial cas…
Loose Ends: Considerations on the Aftermaths of the Celtic Tiger and the Northern 'Troubles
International Politics and Inner Worlds: Masks of Reason under Scrutiny
Why Do States (Bother to) Deceive? Managing Trust at Home and Abroad
Reconsidering American Power: Pax Americana and the Social Sciences
Postcolonial studies, postmodern studies, even posthuman studies emerge, and intellectuals demand that social sciences be remade to address fundamentals of the human condition, from human rights to global environmental crises. Since these fields owe so much to American state sponsorship, is it easier to reimagine the human and the modern than to properly measure the pervasive American influence? Reconsidering American Power offers trenchant studi…
Paradigmatic saboteurs: Eriksonian psychohistory and its vicissitudes
This article revisits and re-evaluates the Eriksonian branch of psychohistorians, whose influence peaked in the early 1970s before seemingly and perhaps unjustly falling out of sight. Why? Should we abandon these scholars altogether, as many have, and start over with a primarily British discipline called psychosocial studies? Or is there and should there be a bridge worth the trouble of crossing between the American psychohistorians and psychosoc…
The devil his due: Psychohistory and psychosocial studies
Psychoanalysis, Science and Power: Essays in Honour of Robert Maxwell Young
Authoritarianism in All its Guises: Perspectives on Right, Left, and Center
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