Misunderstanding International Relations: A Focus on Liberal Democracies
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Critical Thinking: Part One-The Limits of the Expressible -- Fencing the Discussion: The Limits of Thinkable Thought -- Ideas, Interests and Human Nature -- The Power of Vested Interests: Marginalising Dissent -- Chapter 3: Critical Thinking: Part Two-Escaping the Zeitgeist and Building an Intellectual Self-Defence -- Escaping the Zeitgeist: Antidotes to Presentism -- Indoctrination and Propaganda -- Cognitive Traps and Fallacies of Reasoning -- Chapter 4: Israel-Palestine: Part One-Do States Have a "Right to Exist"? -- Related Rights -- A "Right to Exist"? Legal and Self-Arrogated Rights -- What Would a Right to Exist Politically Acknowledge? -- Chapter 5: Israel-Palestine: Part Two-Australian Foreign Policy and the Israel-Palestine Conflict-Avoiding the Colonialist Narrative -- Aspects of Settler Colonial Societies and Relations Between Them -- Establishing the Policy Framework -- The ALP Has a Rethink -- The Split Gets Wider -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6: Is There a Deep State? -- The Deep State and International Relations -- What Is the Deep State? -- Who Is the Deep State? -- The 2016 Election -- Trump and Wall Street -- Chapter 7: United States Foreign Policy: Radical Islam and the West -- A Moral Panic as Orthodoxy -- The Arab Spring, Islamists and the West -- Washington, London and Islamists -- Blowback or Something Deeper? -- To Complement and Control -- Our Responsibilities -- Concluding Thoughts -- Chapter 8: The Vietnam War: Morality and History -- The War as a Mirror to Our Morality -- Chapter 9: Class Power in the United States and Australia -- Case Study: When a Class Mobilises -- Class Identity -- Class Conflict in Australia -- Bipartisanship -- It's Too Complex -- Index.