Narcissism and retrotopia in foreign policy. A vital component of this retrotopic condition is the deepening of inequality.
In foreign policy studies, pathological narcissism unfolds in the mania for grandeur. The regressive condition comes from an attempt to go back to that mythical moment. If we incorporate Freudian narcissism and Baumanian retrotopia into the analyzes of foreign policy, we can draw an arcadia in which a lost past was recovered and in which harmony, well-being and simplicity would reign.