Researching Emotions in International Relations

Maéva Clément is a Research Associate and Teaching Fellow at the Institute for International Politics at the Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg, Germany. Eric Sangar is a FNRS Research Fellow based at the University of Namur, Belgium and an associated researcher at the Centre Emile Durkheim of Sciences Po Bordeaux, France.

“This edited volume is a welcome, accessible and instructive addition to the discipline that makes a valuable contribution and develops a much-needed discussion about emotions in IR. It will speak to people of diverse methodological dispositions, both students and scholars, and shines a light on how to capture, interrogate and interpret what are subjective, and yet integral, dimensions of human relations.” (Claire Yorke, International Affairs, Vol. 94 (3), May, 2018)

• Chapter 1: Introduction: Methodological Challenges and Opportunities for the Study of Emotions Maéva Clément and Eric Sangar.- Chapter 2: Eugene Gendlin and the Feel of International Politics Erik Ringmar.- Chapter 3:Interpreting Affect between State Leaders: Assessing the Political Friendship between Winston S. Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt Yuri van Hoef.- Chapter 4:More Rigor to Emotions! A Comparative, Qualitative Content Analysis of Anger in Russian Foreign Policy Regina Heller.- Chapter 5: Auto-Ethnography and the Study of Affect and Emotion in World Politics: Investigating Security Discourses at London’s Imperial War Museum Audrey Reeves.- Chapter 6: A Plea for a Discursive Approach to Emotions: The Example of the French Airmen’s Relation to Violence Mathias Delori.- Chapter 7: The Formation of the “Western” Strategic Gaze. A Case Study on Emotional Irrelevancein International Politics Christophe Wasinski.- Chapter 8:Of Heroes and Cowards: A Computer-assisted Analysis of Narratives Justifying the Use of Force Eric Sangar, Maéva Clément, and Thomas Lindemann.- Chapter 9: Moving Images and the Politics of Pity: A Multi-Level Approach to the Interpretation of Images and Emotions Gabi Schlag.- Chapter 10: Political Emotions as Public Processes: Analyzing Transnational Ressentiments in Discourses Reinhard Wolf.- Chapter 11:Emotions and Time: Approaching Emotions through a Fusion of Horizons Clara Eroukhmanoff and Bernardo Teles Fazendeiro.- Chapter 12:Speaking from the Heart: Emotion Discourse Analysis in IR Simon Koschut.- Chapter 13:Grasping the Role of Emotions in IR via Qualitative Content Analysis and Visual AnalysisSibylle Reinke de Buitrago.- Chapter 14: Conclusion: Methods and Methodologies for the Study of Emotions in World Politics Roland Bleiker & Emma Hutchison.