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Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (2): 1–2.
Published: 01 June 2018
...Jessica Loudis Copyright © 2018 World Policy Institute 2018 The term “megalomania” first came into use in the late 19th century when a French neurologist delivered a paper detailing the condition as one in which “grandiose delusions and delusions of persecution coexist or alternate...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (2): 34–40.
Published: 01 June 2018
... extensively about one individual right-wing terrorist’s megalomania and narcissism. After all, part of the problem is that the obsessive public and media attention paid to these issues is considered to be a main reason why society struggles to reckon with extremist ideological motivations in the first place...
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World Policy Journal (2003) 20 (3): 59–69.
Published: 01 September 2003
... there
on megalomania (if sometimes exhibited is a thought disorder and severely impaired
in less florid form) in others who take the social function); and some can move in and
lead in projects of apocalyptic destruction, out of psychosis. But more often they are
including not only Osama bin Laden...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (2): 88–93.
Published: 01 June 2018
... refused to abide by the new rules simply vanished from print. Having statues of yourself erected, lapping up praise from audiences of sycophants, featuring as the subject of hagiographic movies, and then compelling your subjects to read your works—are these instances of megalomania, or of sticking...
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (2): 106–111.
Published: 01 June 2018
... and Yascha, thanks so much for agreeing to do this conversation. The theme of this issue is “megalomania,” which tends to evoke—at least right now—a handful of rising nationalist leaders around the world. We’re living in a peculiar moment in world history: The post-World War II order is under siege...
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World Policy Journal (2002) 19 (3): 77–82.
Published: 01 September 2002
... of Germany, Japan, or Russia would In formulating polices to affect that
likely be viewed as evidence of resurgent transformation, successive presidents— to
megalomania. But the notion of history include Bush in the aftermath of Septem
anointing the United States to be the agent ber 11— have...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2001) 18 (1): 25–30.
Published: 01 March 2001
..., the weapons become
into a collective form of that destructive a source of motivation for their own use.
megalomania. Even weapons advocates— those deepest
Trickle-down nuclearism also exists in into nuclearism— sense that these weapons
our own country, notably...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (2): 47–55.
Published: 01 June 2018
.... In September 1980, a military coup would forever change both Turkish politics and Erdoğan’s life, ushering the country into an age of political megalomania. Kenan Evren was born in the Aegean town of Alaşehir to a family with Bulgarian and Albanian roots. During the Cold War, he excelled in the Armed...
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Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2001) 17 (4): 33–45.
Published: 01 December 2001
... on the ambitions, jealousies,
Yet what most scared these leaders were and megalomania of individual rulers.
aroused popular expectations about politi Unable to tackle problems jointly,
cal freedom, democracy, and Islam. Sud especially on the economic front, the Cen
denly, all kinds of once-forbidden...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2004) 21 (3): 79–94.
Published: 01 September 2004
.... But he received unex coming with a sharp personal tinge. Thus,
pected support from two stalwarts who in an essay published in January 1964, Ra
had also worked with Gandhiji. One was jaji had spoken of “megalomania and narcis
84 WORLD...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2004) 21 (2): 7–26.
Published: 01 June 2004
...
party whose roots were traceable to the ing appeal. This pledge contrasted very pos
Franco dictatorship. To do this, he shifted itively with the megalomania of which
the party’s discourse further toward the cen González was now widely suspected.
ter, while doing his utmost to exploit...
