Kurt Jacobsen Libri

The book critiques the revival of counterinsurgency doctrines during the Iraq mission, particularly focusing on the concept of "pacification." It highlights how this term, framed as a means of government control and local support, masks the violent suppression of resistance movements. Jacobsen draws parallels to historical atrocities in Vietnam, arguing that such euphemisms perpetuate repressive practices that civilized nations must reject. The pamphlet serves as a call to critically examine and abandon these harmful policies.

Focusing on Freud's most vocal critics, this book defends psychoanalysis while acknowledging its imperfections. It contends that contemporary opponents, who present themselves as innovative thinkers, are merely continuing a long-standing tradition of critique that psychoanalysis has faced since its inception. The author argues that these modern critiques are not as formidable as they seem and can be effectively countered.

This book tells the dramatic story of the Danish company GN Store Nord and its founder, industrialist and visionary C.F. Tietgen, the forefather of modern communication. C.F. Tietgen and the Great Northern Telegraph Company made history when they set up telegraph cables in China and Japan in 1870-1871 and thus connected the two countries with the rest of the world through the world-wide communication network. Soon transatlantic submarine cables across the Pacific Ocean and North Atlantic Ocean followed.Through the 19th and 20th centuries the company endured rivals, revolutions, and civil wars in China and Russia, conflicts and wars in the Pacific Ocean and East Asia, the terror during Stalin's reign, and not least two world wars and the Cold War up until today's globalised and digitalised world.The story of the book moves through government offices and imperial chambers in China, Russia, Japan, and UK, the construction of telegraph lines in Chinese paddy fields, and cable-laying in unknown waters, travels on horseback through the impassable Siberia, and seminal decisions in contemporary boardrooms.

Maverick Voices offers in-depth interviews with prominent rebels stubbornly at work in the interlacing realms of politics, literature, film, art, and psychotherapy. These highly accomplished artists and activists, who hail from the USA, Europe, and Latin America, thrived in their fields against the odds, often gaining worldwide acclaim.

This book takes radical aim at the conventional conduct of international relations analysis. It reexamines the role of ideas, the usefulness of psychoanalysis, the rage for and at rational choice, the influence of the public on foreign policy, counterinsurgency evangelism, and development orthodoxies at the national and genetic levels. Drawing a bead on conceptual blind spots prevalent both inside and outside the academy, the book urges scholars to reflect on how inner worlds shape the actions of their subjects—and their own research analyses, as well.