Emotions in International Politics

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

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.