Emotions in International Politics
Beyond Mainstream International Relations

This book investigates collective emotions in international politics, with examples from 9/11 and World War II to the Rwandan genocide.

Yohan Ariffin (Edited by), Jean-Marc Coicaud (Edited by), Vesselin Popovski (Edited by)

9781107534483, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 11 May 2017

434 pages, 16 b/w illus.
23 x 15.3 x 2.2 cm, 0.64 kg

In recent years, social scientists have increasingly recognized the interconnectedness of thought on emotions. Nowhere is the role of passions more evident than international politics, where pride, anger, guilt, fear, empathy, and other feelings are routinely on display. But in the absence of an overarching theory of emotions, how can we understand their role at the international level? Emotions in International Politics fills the need for theoretical tools in the new and rapidly growing subfield of international relations. Eminent scholars from a range of disciplines consider how emotions can be investigated from an international perspective involving collective players, drawing evidence from such emotionally fraught events as the Rwandan genocide, World War II, the 9/11 attacks, and the Iranian nuclear standoff. The path-breaking research collected in Emotions in International Politics will be a valuable theoretical guide to understanding conflict and cooperation in international relations.

Preface Richard Ned Lebow
Introduction Yohan Ariffin
Part I. Towards an Interdisciplinary Analysis of Emotions in International Politics: 1. The question of emotions and passions in mainstream international relations, and beyond Jean-Marc Coicaud
2. Emotion and change: where history comes in Peter N. Stearns
3. The sociology of face-to-face emotions James M. Jasper
4. From intersubjectivity to international relations: the teachings of the 'emotive turn' of cognitive science? Jean-Michel Roy
5. Emotions of uncertainty, competition, and cooperation in the international financial sector Jocelyn Pixley
6. Exploring the nexus of emotions/passions, values, and rights in international affairs Jean-Marc Coicaud
7. Psychoanalysis and the study of emotions in international politics Pierre de Senarclens
8. Emotions and international law Vesselin Popovski
Part II. Emotions in Foreign Policy Decision Making and in War and Peace: 9. Assessing the role of emotives in international relations Yohan Ariffin
10. The role of emotions in foreign policy decision making: embarrassment from the Bay of Pigs Assia Alexieva
11. Shadow of guilt: US Rwandese relations after 1994 genocide Ainius Lasas
12. Emotions and passions of death and the making of World War II: the cases of Germany and Japan Jean-Marc Coicaud
13. From group identity to ethnic violence Pierre de Senarclens
14. Exceptionalism, counterterrorism, and the emotional politics of human rights Andrew Ross
15. The dialectic of rage: how anger, fear, pride, and some other passion combine, interact, and fight each other in the post-Cold War world Pierre Hassner
16. Transforming conflict: trust, empathy, and dialogue Naomi Head
17. The role of emotives in the international management of plant genetic resources Yohan Ariffin
Conclusion Jean-Marc Coicaud.

Subject Areas: International relations [JPS], Politics & government [JP], Sociology [JHB]