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Studying emotions in security and diplomacy: Where we are now and challenges ahead

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posted on 2019-10-30, 15:25 authored by Michelle Pace, Ali BilgicAli Bilgic
The core objective of this special issue has been to shed light on emotions as (1) frames that shape interpersonal diplomatic relations, (2) as key tools that are used as part of the statecraft's toolbox, and (3) as formative/productive dynamics with real effects on human beings—that, in turn, often construct and maintain conflicts. It is therefore pertinent that we interrogate the political psychology of individual, collective, mass, and communal emotions and how these are often (mis)used in diplomacy and security narratives to legitimize politicians' decisions and practices. This concluding article provides a state of the art account of the study of emotions in International Relations (IR), sums up the main findings from all special issue contributions and constructively explores potential challenges ahead for the study of emotions in IR, especially in security and diplomacy studies. It concludes with an appeal for the development of a multiperspective approach—that is, one that combines social sciences, natural sciences, and humanities—for a nuanced study of the role of emotional work in state, diplomatic as well as security narratives and practices. This approach will in turn require methodological pluralism in how we go about, as reflexive researchers, our emotional research.

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School

  • Social Sciences

Department

  • Politics and International Studies

Published in

Political Psychology

Volume

40

Issue

6

Pages

1407 - 1417

Publisher

Wiley

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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© International Society of Political Psychology

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This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: PACE, M. and BILGIC, A., 2019. Studying emotions in security and diplomacy: Where we are now and challenges ahead. Political Psychology, 40 (6), pp.1407-1417, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12635. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.

Publication date

2019-10-28

Copyright date

2019

ISSN

0162-895X

eISSN

1467-9221

Language

  • en

Depositor

Dr Ali Bilgic. Deposit date: 29 October 2019

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