Description
This panel brings together a series of papers situated at the intersection of emotions and International Relations, foreign policy and war. Drawing on a range of theoretical influences and methodological approaches, the panel offers an interdisciplinary discussion as to the role of emotions in elite, individual and national perspectives. Consequently, the papers tackle the role that emotions have in the development of foreign policy and its implementation, in national and bilateral negotiations between countries, in diplomatic relations, as well as in conflict. In so doing the papers push the discourse of emotions and war within the discipline to imagine not only emotions such as anger and fear, but to consider the role of pride, recognition, anxiety, the therapeutic governance inspired by codifications of trauma, trust, and collective emotional mobilization in foreign policy and transnational movements.
