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Interpellation and the Politics of Belonging: A Psychoanalytical Framework (2023)
Journal Article
Mandelbaum, M. M. (2023). Interpellation and the Politics of Belonging: A Psychoanalytical Framework. International Studies Quarterly, 67(3), https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqad055

Interpellation, the production and hailing of subjectivities, is key to poststructuralist international relations (IR) theory and yet with some notable exceptions interpellation/hailing as an analytical concept remains somewhat undertheorized. This p... Read More about Interpellation and the Politics of Belonging: A Psychoanalytical Framework.

The Making and Remaking of State Sovereignty in IR Theory: From Fantasy to Nightmare (2023)
Book Chapter
Mandelbaum, M. (in press). The Making and Remaking of State Sovereignty in IR Theory: From Fantasy to Nightmare. In Variations on Sovereignty. (1). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003287506-3

This chapter traces the discursive and phantasmic (re-)productions of state sovereignty in IR theory from traditional scholarship to contemporary mainstream IR theory, thus contributing to recent analyses of sovereignty in critical and historical IR.... Read More about The Making and Remaking of State Sovereignty in IR Theory: From Fantasy to Nightmare.

The Repetitions of Nationalism: Ontology, Fantasy and Jouissance (2022)
Book Chapter
Mandelbaum, M. (2022). The Repetitions of Nationalism: Ontology, Fantasy and Jouissance. In P. de Orellana, & N. Michelsen (Eds.), Global Nationalism Ideas, Movements and Dynamics in the Twenty-First Century (3-22). https://doi.org/10.1142/9781800611542_0002

What is it in nationalism that lends itself to such continuous permutations and repetitions, to its perpetuum mobile? Why are ‘we’ continuously investing in it despite its failures and indeed its darker side of exclusions, xenophobia and even genocid... Read More about The Repetitions of Nationalism: Ontology, Fantasy and Jouissance.

Psychoanalysis in Global Politics and International Relations (2021)
Journal Article
Mandelbaum, M., & Zevnik, A. Z. (2021). Psychoanalysis in Global Politics and International Relations. https://doi.org/10.1093/OBO/9780199743292-0300

Critical and poststructural theories were introduced to global politics in early to mid-1990s. Since then there has been a proliferation of critical thinking in global politics with Derridean and Foucauldian approaches being the most popular. While p... Read More about Psychoanalysis in Global Politics and International Relations.

‘Making Our Country Great Again’: The Politics of Subjectivity in an Age of National-Populism (2020)
Journal Article
Mandelbaum, M. (2020). ‘Making Our Country Great Again’: The Politics of Subjectivity in an Age of National-Populism. International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, 451-476. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11196-020-09717-6

How could we understand the emotive power of national-populist discourses, indeed the calls to ‘make our country great again’? This paper directly tackles the recent Brexit discourse, within the broader context of rising national-populist sentiments.... Read More about ‘Making Our Country Great Again’: The Politics of Subjectivity in an Age of National-Populism.

The Nation/State Fantasy A Psychoanalytical Genealogy of Nationalism (2020)
Book
Mandelbaum, M. (2020). The Nation/State Fantasy A Psychoanalytical Genealogy of Nationalism

This book explores the origins of nationalism and the ideal of nation/state congruency since early-modern European thought, their transformation over time and endurance in contemporary political thought and IR theory.

Do we need a (legal) definition of anti-Semitism? (2018)
Other
Mandelbaum, M. (2018). Do we need a (legal) definition of anti-Semitism?. [Web]

Drawing on the IHRA definition without the problematic examples, the new code of conduct adopted by the Labour party is a step in the right direction.

'I'm a PROUD Israeli': Homonationalism, Belonging and the Insecurity of the Jewish-Israeli Body (2018)
Journal Article
Mandelbaum, M. (2018). 'I'm a PROUD Israeli': Homonationalism, Belonging and the Insecurity of the Jewish-Israeli Body. Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, 160-179. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41282-018-0093-0

The section ‘gay rights in Israel’, part of the gaytlvguide.com website promoting gay life and culture in Israel, narrates Israel as ‘… one of the world’s most progressive countries in terms of equality for sexual minorities… by far the most tolerant... Read More about 'I'm a PROUD Israeli': Homonationalism, Belonging and the Insecurity of the Jewish-Israeli Body.

State, Nation, Society: The Congruency Fantasy and the In/Security of the Body-National/Social (2016)
Journal Article
Mandelbaum, M. (2016). State, Nation, Society: The Congruency Fantasy and the In/Security of the Body-National/Social. Critical Studies on Security, https://doi.org/10.1080/21624887.2016.1163921

Taking cue from Foucault’s Society Must be Defended and drawing on the Lacanian concept of fantasy this paper puts forwards an analytic of in/security by focusing on the fantasy of congruency of state, nation and society. I argue that this ideal of c... Read More about State, Nation, Society: The Congruency Fantasy and the In/Security of the Body-National/Social.

The fantasy of congruency: the Abbe Sieyes and the ‘nation-state’ problematique revisited (2015)
Journal Article
Mandelbaum, M. (2015). The fantasy of congruency: the Abbe Sieyes and the ‘nation-state’ problematique revisited. Philosophy and Social Criticism, https://doi.org/10.1177/0191453715617503

This paper offers an alternative reading of the Abbé Sieyès and the modern ‘nation-state’ problématique. I argue that the subject/object that is constituted in the early days of modernity is the incomplete society: an impossible-possibility ideal of... Read More about The fantasy of congruency: the Abbe Sieyes and the ‘nation-state’ problematique revisited.