Emotions - International Relations - Oxford Bibliographies

Over the past fifteen years, scholars in international relations (IR) have set out to understand the vexing role of emotions in international and global politics. Research on this topic runs the full gamut from studies of individual leaders to the emotions associated with states and other collectivities. The nationalist conflicts of the post–Cold War period, coupled with the dramatic terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, provide the historical context for this affective turn, but its intellectual roots extend into longer-standing scholarly interest in emotion and affect within adjacent disciplines such as psychology, social psychology, neuroscience, sociology, and cultural theory. In demanding attention to research across these many disciplines, the study of emotion in IR has proved a tough nut to crack, and more disagreement than consensus continues to be found on how to study emotion and what its politically significant effects might be. One persistent schism exists between those w

Over the past fifteen years, scholars in international relations (IR) have set out to understand the vexing role of emotions in international and global politics. Research on this topic runs the full gamut from studies of individual leaders to the emotions associated with states and other collectivities. The nationalist conflicts of the post–Cold War period, coupled with the dramatic terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, provide the historical context for this affective turn, but its intellectual roots extend into longer-standing scholarly interest in emotion and affect within adjacent disci