Methodology And Emotion In International Relations

Author : Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1032240970

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Methodology and Emotion in International Relations by Taylor & Francis Group Pdf

This volume offers a state-of-the-art study of the diverse methodological approaches and issues in the study of emotions in international relations research. While interest in emotion and affect in IR has grown in recent years, there remains an absence of sustained engagement with questions of methodology and method. Although much of the field holds the 'emotions turn' as laudable, it is commonly seen as facing serious, even prohibitive, methodological challenges. Using a common framework for making discussions of methodology and emotion mutually intelligible, this work seeks to address this lacuna and will be of interest to students and scholars of international relations, research methods and IR theory.

Author : Maéva Clément,Eric Sangar
Publisher : Springer
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319655758

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Researching Emotions in International Relations by Maéva Clément,Eric Sangar Pdf

This edited volume is the first to discuss the methodological implications of the ‘emotional turn’ in International Relations. While emotions have become of increasing interest to IR theory, methodological challenges have yet to receive proper attention. Acknowledging the pluralityof ontological positions, concepts and theories about the role of emotions in world politics, this volume presents and discusses various ways to research emotions empirically. Based on concrete research projects, the chapters demonstrate how social-scientific and humanitiesoriented methodological approaches can be successfully adapted to the study of emotions in IR. The volume covers a diverse set of both well-established and innovative methods, including discourse analysis, ethnography, narrative, and visual analysis. Through a hands-on approach, each chapter sheds light on practical challenges and opportunities, as well as lessons learnt for future research. The volume is an invaluable resource for advanced graduate and postgraduate students as well as scholars interested in developing their own empirical research on the role of emotions.

Author : Eric Van Rythoven,Mira Sucharov
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429813566

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Methodology and Emotion in International Relations by Eric Van Rythoven,Mira Sucharov Pdf

This volume offers a state-of-the-art study of the diverse methodological approaches and issues in the study of emotions in international relations research. While interest in emotion and affect in IR has grown in recent years, there remains an absence of sustained engagement with questions of methodology and method. Although much of the field holds the ‘emotions turn’ as laudable, it is commonly seen as facing serious, even prohibitive, methodological challenges. Using a common framework for making discussions of methodology and emotion mutually intelligible, this work seeks to address this lacuna and will be of interest to students and scholars of international relations, research methods and IR theory.

Author : Yohan Ariffin,Jean-Marc Coicaud,Vesselin Popovski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107113855

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Emotions in International Politics by Yohan Ariffin,Jean-Marc Coicaud,Vesselin Popovski Pdf

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

Author : Linda Åhäll,Thomas Gregory
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317656166

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Emotions, Politics and War by Linda Åhäll,Thomas Gregory Pdf

A growing number of scholars have sought to re-centre emotions in our study of international politics, however an overarching book on how emotions matter to the study of politics and war is yet to be published. This volume is aimed at filling that gap, proceeding from the assumption that a nuanced understanding of emotions can only enhance our engagement with contemporary conflict and war. Providing a range of perspectives from a diversity of methodological approaches on the conditions, maintenance and interpretation of emotions, the contributors interrogate the multiple ways in which emotions function and matter to the study of global politics. Accordingly, the innovative contribution of this volume is its specific engagement with the role of emotions and constitution of emotional subjects in a range of different contexts of politics and war, including the gendered nature of war and security; war traumas; post-conflict reconstruction; and counterinsurgency operations. Looking at how we analyse emotions in war, why it matters, and what emotions do in global politics, this volume will be of interest to students and scholars of critical security studies and international relations alike.

Author : Robin Markwica
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780192513113

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Emotional Choices by Robin Markwica Pdf

Why do states often refuse to yield to military threats from a more powerful actor, such as the United States? Why do they frequently prefer war to compliance? International Relations scholars generally employ the rational choice logic of consequences or the constructivist logic of appropriateness to explain this puzzling behavior. Max Weber, however, suggested a third logic of choice in his magnum opus Economy and Society: human decision making can also be motivated by emotions. Drawing on Weber and more recent scholarship in sociology and psychology, Robin Markwica introduces the logic of affect, or emotional choice theory, into the field of International Relations. The logic of affect posits that actors' behavior is shaped by the dynamic interplay among their norms, identities, and five key emotions: fear, anger, hope, pride, and humiliation. Markwica puts forward a series of propositions that specify the affective conditions under which leaders are likely to accept or reject a coercer's demands. To infer emotions and to examine their influence on decision making, he develops a methodological strategy combining sentiment analysis and an interpretive form of process tracing. He then applies the logic of affect to Nikita Khrushchev's behavior during the Cuban missile crisis in 1962 and Saddam Hussein's decision making in the Gulf conflict in 1990-1 offering a novel explanation for why U.S. coercive diplomacy succeeded in one case but not in the other.

Author : Rupert Brodersen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351175289

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Emotional Motives in International Relations by Rupert Brodersen Pdf

The study of emotions in International Relations is gaining wide-spread attention. Within the "emotional turn" in IR the emotion of rage however has not been given sufficient attention, instead being used as short-hand for irrationality and excess. Rage is arguably one of the oldest and most destructive emotions in human affairs. This book offers an innovative approach that seeks to split rage into its traditional manifestation of aggression and violence, and into a less visible, passive manifestation of Nietzschean Ressentiment. This model facilitates a comprehensive understanding of revisionist motivation, from the violence of ISIS to the oppositionism of Putin’s Russia. The aim is to illustrate how a lack of violence can belie vengeful impulses and a silent rage, and how acts of violence, regardless of brutality, are often framed as a type of justice and "moral imperative" in the mind of the aggressor. This book raises serious questions and concerns about legitimacy and order in global affairs, and offers a firm theoretical basis for the exploration of present day conflicts.

Author : Elina Penttinen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136738470

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Joy and International Relations by Elina Penttinen Pdf

This book aims to develop new methodology for the study of international relations (IR) based on joy, informed by current thinking about posthumanism, feminist theory and positive psychology. It examines how the mechanistic-deterministic worldview derived from the Newtonian model has influenced the epistemology and methodology of IR (i.e., the idea that the world is constituted of independent fragments), and seeks ways to develop a new methodology for IR by drawing on the potential of a non-fragmented worldview. The author argues that it is this modern Western view of human beings (or societies) as isolated and separate from the world that prevents IR from finding new solutions to the questions of war and conflict. Drawing upon case studies, testimonies and examples from film, this book instead proposes joy as an alternative methodology for studying IR, exploring the possibility of self-healing in physical and emotional trauma in extreme violent conditions.The author also discusses how posthumanism contributes to positive psychology in understanding happiness and empowerment, and demonstrates how these findings can further widen the study of IR. This book will be of much interest to students of gender studies, war and conflict studies, IR theory and critical security studies.

Author : Helena Flam
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781803925653

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Research Handbook on the Sociology of Emotion by Helena Flam Pdf

The Research Handbook on the Sociology of Emotion investigates the role of emotions in key institutions understood as the frames and fabrics of society. It takes a critical look at society-framing institutions such as the state, the military, the market, and international organizations.

Author : T. V. Paul,Deborah Welch Larson,Harold A. Trinkunas,Anders Wivel,Ralf Emmers
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190097387

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The Oxford Handbook of Peaceful Change in International Relations by T. V. Paul,Deborah Welch Larson,Harold A. Trinkunas,Anders Wivel,Ralf Emmers Pdf

The discipline of international relations offers much insight into why violent power transitions occur, yet there have been few substantive examinations of why and how peaceful changes happen in world politics. This work is the first comprehensive treatment of that subject. The Oxford Handbook of Peaceful Change in International Relations provides a thorough examination of research on the problem of change in the international arena and the reasons why change happens peacefully at times, and at others, violently. It contains over forty chapters, which examine the historical, theoretical, global, regional, and national foreign-policy dimensions of peaceful change. As the world enters a new round of power transition conflict, involving a rapidly rising China and a relatively declining United States, this Handbook provides a necessary resource for decisionmakers and scholars engaged in this vital area of research.

Author : Christer Pursiainen,Tuomas Forsberg
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030798871

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The Psychology of Foreign Policy by Christer Pursiainen,Tuomas Forsberg Pdf

This book focuses on foreign policy decision-making from the viewpoint of psychology. Psychology is always present in human decision-making, constituted by its structural determinants but also playing its own agency-level constitutive and causal roles, and therefore it should be taken into account in any analysis of foreign policy decisions. The book analyses a wide variety of prominent psychological approaches, such as bounded rationality, prospect theory, belief systems, cognitive biases, emotions, personality theories and trust to the study of foreign policy, identifying their achievements and added value as well as their limitations from a comparative perspective. Understanding how leaders in world politics act requires us to consider recent advances in neuroscience, psychology and behavioral economics. As a whole, the book aims at better integrating various psychological theories into the study of international relations and foreign policy analysis, as partial explanations themselves but also as facets of more comprehensive theories. It also discusses practical lessons that the psychological approaches offer since ignoring psychology can be costly: decision-makers need to be able reflect on their own decision-making process as well as the perspectives of the others. Paying attention to the psychological factors in international relations is necessary for better understanding the microfoundations upon which such agency is based.

Author : Yong-Soo Eun
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351665032

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Going beyond Parochialism and Fragmentation in the Study of International Relations by Yong-Soo Eun Pdf

International Relations (IR), as a discipline, is a western dominated enterprise. This has led to calls to broaden the scope and vision of the discipline by embracing a wider range of histories, experiences, and theoretical perspectives – particularly those outside the Anglo-American core of the West. The ongoing ‘broadening IR projects’ – be they ‘non-Western IR’, ‘post-Western IR’, or ‘Global IR’ – are making contributions in this regard. However, some careful thinking is needed here in that these attempts could also lead to a national or regional ‘inwardness’ that works to reproduce the very parochialism that is being challenged. The main intellectual concerns of this edited volume are problematising Western parochialism in IR; giving theoretical and epistemological substance to pluralism in the field of IR based on both Western and non-Western thoughts and experiences; and working out ways to move the discipline of IR one step closer to a dialogic community. A key issue that cuts across all contributions in the volume is to go beyond both parochialism and fragmentation in international studies. In order to address the manifold and contested implications of pluralism in in the field of IR, the volume draws on the wealth of experience and research of prominent and emerging IR scholars whose contributions make up the work, with a mixture of theoretical analysis and case studies. This book will appeal to scholars and students interested in Global IR and promoting dialogue in a pluralist IR.

Author : J. Samuel Barkin,Laura Sjoberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190463441

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International Relations' Last Synthesis? by J. Samuel Barkin,Laura Sjoberg Pdf

Many scholars, intentionally or unintentionally, have entangled constructivisms and critical theories in problematic ways, either by assigning a critical-theoretical politics to constructivisms or by assuming the appropriateness of constructivist epistemology and methods for critical theorizing. IR's Last Synthesis? makes the argument that these connections mirror IR's grand theoretical syntheses of the 1980s and 1990s and have similar constraining effects on the possibilities of IR theory. They have been made without adequate reflection, in contradiction to the base assumptions of each theoretical perspective, and to the detriment of both knowledge accumulation about global politics and theoretical rigor in disciplinary IR. It is not that constructivisms and critical theories have no common ground; rather, the fact that it has become routine for IR scholars to overstate their common ground is counterproductive to the discovery and utilization of their potential dialogues. To that end, IR's Last Synthesis? argues that scholars using the two in conjunction should be cognizant of, rather than gloss over, the tensions between the approaches and the tools they have to offer. Along these lines, the book uses the concept of affordances to look at what each has to offer the other, and to argue for a modest, reflective, specified return to (constructivist and critical) IR theorizing. By rejecting its over-simple syntheses, this book hews a road toward reviving IR theorizing.

Author : K. M. Fierke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107029231

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Political Self-Sacrifice by K. M. Fierke Pdf

This book examines a variety of different forms of political self-sacrifice, including hunger strikes, self-burning, and non-violent martyrdom.

Author : Trygve Mathisen
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : International relations
ISBN : IND:39000007842946

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Methodology in the Study of International Relations by Trygve Mathisen Pdf