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Lehrende: Prof. Dr. Simon Koschut
Veranstaltungsart:
Seminar
Orga-Einheit: Sociology, Politics & Economics
Anzeige im Stundenplan:
SPE Vertiefung II
Semesterwochenstunden:
3
Credits:
9,0
Standort:
Campus der Zeppelin Universität
Unterrichtssprache:
Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl:
10 | 24
Prioritätsschema: Standard-Priorisierung
Inhalte:
The growth of research on emotion in International Relations (IR) has produced a significant body of literature in recent years. This body of literature has raised a number of interesting questions, debates, and theoretical positions regarding the agentic properties of international actors and how they are embedded in international structures. This seminar takes stock of these developments and situates the scholarly attention to emotions around central themes, debates, and controversies. Emotions have long been viewed in IR as self-evident and irrational by-products of cognitive processes and have, until recently, remained largely implicit and undertheorized. The first wave of research lamented the discipline’s neglect and marginalization of emotions in mainstream IR theories and concepts. The second wave has turned to specific ways to integrate the consideration of emotion into existing research within specific issue areas, from diplomacy, security, war and ethnic conflict to transnational actors, institutions, governance, and conflict management. The literature on this topic is by now so extensive that many even speak of an ‘emotional turn’. Its intellectual roots stem from various disciplines, such as psychology, neuroscience, sociology, history, and cultural studies, and this diversity is reflected in ongoing challenges of how to study emotions and its political effects in IR. These challenges relate to a number of ontological and epistemological questions, including how to conceptualize emotions, how to capture emotions methodologically, and how to move from the individual to the collective level of analysis. Whatever divergent claims are made by these scholars, there is by now a firm consensus in the discipline that emotions matter for international and global politics.
Syllabus (Draft!)
10.02.
The ‚emotional turn’ in International Relations
Mandatory reading:
Neta C. Crawford (2000) The Passion of World Politics, International Security 24(4), 116-156.
Jonathan Mercer (2005) Rationality and Psychology in International Politics, International Organization 59(1): 77-106.
Supplementary reading:
Ariffin, Yohan, Jean-Marc Coicaud and Vesselin Popovski (2016). Emotions in International Politics: Beyond Mainstream International Relations. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1-22.
Hall, Todd H., and Andrew A. G. Ross (2015). Affective Politics after 9/11. International Organization, 69(4): 847–879.
17.02.
What is an emotion? Theories and concepts
Mandatory reading:
Renée Jeffrey (2014) Reason and Emotion in International Ethics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 126-156.
Emma Hutchison and Roland Bleiker (2014) Theorizing Emotions in World Politics, International Theory 6(3), 491-514.
Supplementary reading:
Mercer, Jonathan (2005). Rationality and Psychology in International Politics. International Organization, 59(1): 77-106.
Andrew A.G. Ross (2006) Coming in From the Cold: Constructivism and Emotions, European Journal of International Relations 12(2), 197-222.
24.02.
How to study emotions? Methodological challenges
Mandatory reading:
Maéva Clément and Eric Sangar (2018) Introduction. In: Maéva Clément and Eric Sangar (eds) Researching Emotions in International Relations. New York: Palgrave Macmillan
Roland Bleiker and Emma Hutchison (2008). Fear No More: Emotions and World Politics, Review of International Studies 34: 115-134.
Supplementary reading:
Simon Koschut (2020) The Power of Emotions in World Politics. New York: Routledge, 3-28.
Linda Åhäll (2018). Affect as Methodology: Feminism and the Politics of Emotion. International Political Sociology 12.1: 36–52.
03.03.
Emotions in foreign policy decision-making
Mandatory reading:
Rose McDermott (2004) Political Psychology in International Relations. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 153-188.
Jacques E. Hymans (2006) The Psychology of Nuclear Proliferation. Identity, Emotions, and Foreign Policy, 171-203.
Supplementary reading:
Alexieva, Assia (2016). The Role of Emotions in Foreign Policy Decision Making: Embarrassment from the Bay of Pigs. In: Yohan Ariffin, Jean-Marc Coicaud and Vesselin Popovski (eds) Emotions in International Politics: Beyond Mainstream International Relations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 221-253.
Markwica, Robin (2018). Emotional Choices. How the Logic of Affect Shapes Coercive Diplomacy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1-35.
10.03.
The session is canceled due to a business trip
17.03.
Emotions in international diplomacy
Mandatory reading:
Marcus Holmes (2013) The Force of Face-to-Face Diplomacy: Mirror Neurons and the Problem of Intentions 67(4), 829-861.
Todd H. Hall (2011) We Will Not Swallow This Bitter Fruit: Theorizing a Diplomacy of Anger, Security Studies 20(5), 521-555.
Supplementary reading:
Koschut, Simon (2014) Emotional (Security) Communities: The Significance of Emotion Norms in Inter-allied Conflict Management, in: Review of International Studies 40(3): 533-558.
Marcus Holmes and Nicholas J. Wheeler (2019). Social Bonding in Diplomacy. International Theory, 12(1): 133-161.
Wong, Seanon S. (2016). Emotions and the Communication of Intentions in Face-to-Face Diplomacy. European Journal of International Relations, 22(1): 144-167.
24.03.
The feelings of a state
Mandatory reading:
Brent E. Sasley (2011) Theorizing States’ Emotions, International Studies Review 13(3), 452-476.
Mercer, Jonathan (2014) Feeling like a State: Social emotion and identity. International Theory, 6(3), 515–535.
Supplementary reading:
Löwenheim, Oded and Gadi Heimann (2008). Revenge in International Politics. Security Studies, 17(4): 685-724.
Alexander Wendt (2004) The State as Person in International Theory. Review of International Studies 30(2), 289-316.
31.03.
The session is canceled due to a business trip
07.04.
Emotions, nationalism and ethnic conflict
Mandatory reading:
Gries, Peter Hays. China’s New Nationalism, Pride Politics, and Diplomacy. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004
Andrew A.G. Ross (2014) Mixed Emotions. Beyond Fear and Hatred in International Conflict. Chicago: Chicago University Press,
Supplementary reading:
Moïsi, Dominique. The Geopolitics of Emotion: How Cultures of Fear, Humiliation, and Hope Are Reshaping the World. New York: Doubleday, 2009.
Linda Åhäll and Thomas Gregory (eds) (2015). Emotions, Politics and War. New York: Routledge.
21.04.
Emotions, non-state actors, and political protest
Mandatory reading:
Jasper, James M. “Emotions and Social Movements: Twenty Years of Theory and Research.” Annual Review of Sociology 37 (2011): 285–303.
Pearlman, Wendy. “Emotions and the Microfoundations of the Arab Uprisings.” Perspectives on Politics 11.2 (2013): 387–409.
Supplementary reading:
Fierke, Karin M. (2013). Political Self Sacrifice. Agency, Body and Emotion in International Relations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Fattah, Khaled and Karin M. Fierke (2009). A Clash of Emotions: The Politics of Humiliation and Political Violence in the Middle East. European Journal of International Relations, 15(1): 67-93.
28.04.
Emotions, images and visual politics
Mandatory reading:
Adler-Nissen, Rebecca, Katrine Emilie Andersen and Lene Hansen (2020) Images, emotions, and international politics: the death of Alan Kurdi, in: Review of International Studies 46(1), 75-95.
Auchter, Jessica (2016). Caution – Graphic Images: The Politics of Obscene Dead Bodies. Critical Security Studies, 4(1): 118-120.
Supplementary reading:
Bleiker, Roland (ed). Visual Global Politics. New York: Routledge.
Axel Heck and Gabi Schlag (2013). Securitizing Images: The Female Body and the War in Afghanistan. European Journal of International Relations 19:4, 891-913.
05.05.
Emotions, memory, and trauma
Mandatory reading:
Edkins, Jenny. Trauma and the Memory of Politics. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1-19.
Hutchison, Emma (2016) Affective Communities in World Politics: Collective Emotions after Trauma. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 211-266.
Supplementary reading:
Kinnvall, Catarina (2017). Feeling Ontologically (In)Secure: States, Traumas and the Governing of Gendered Space. Cooperation and Conflict, 52(1): 90-108.
Resende, Erica and Dovile Budryte (eds.) (2014). Memory and Trauma in International Relations. Theories, Cases, and Debates. New York: Routledge, 1-12.
Lernziele:
- Understanding of the basic concepts and genesis of emotion research in the discipline of International Relations (IR)
- Empirical analysis of emotions in international politics?
Weitere Informationen zu den Prüfungsleistungen:
Oral presentation and seminar paper
Each presentation should last between 10 and 15 minutes. The presentation should consist of three parts: a) a brief summary of the main content of the text (what is this text about?) B) a short summary of the key theses/arguments (max. 3-4) with explanations and, if necessary, examples or illustrations c ) a presentation of the author's conclusions and, if necessary, his / her own (critical) assessment. The presentation should be printed out as a thesis paper (max. 1 page) and be available to the participants at the beginning of the seminar. If desired, a Power Point presentation is also possible (but not as a replacement for the thesis paper!).
A detailed guide is available for the seminar paper.
Literatur:
Neta C. Crawford (2000) The Passion of World Politics, International Security 24(4), 116-156.
Emma Hutchison and Roland Bleiker (2014) Theorizing Emotions in World Politics, International Theory 6(3), 491-514.
Maéva Clément and Eric Sangar (eds) Researching Emotions in International Relations. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Brent E. Sasley (2011) Theorizing States’ Emotions, International Studies Review 13(3), 452-476.
Jonathan Mercer (2010) Emotional Beliefs, International Organization 64(1), 1-31.
Andrew A.G. Ross (2006) Coming in From the Cold: Constructivism and Emotions, European Journal of International Relations 12(2), 197-222.
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