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Trauma, emotions and memory in world politics: The case of the European Union’s foreign policy in the Middle East conflict
This article focuses on the impact of emotions on the European Union (EU)’s international identity and agency
in the context of the memory of trauma. Emotions are understood as performances through which an actor
expresses itself to others while constructing its identity, creating its agency, and potentially affecting the social
order. It is argued that the memory of trauma is translated into EU foreign policy practice through emotional
performances of EU representatives. Empirically, we explore this impact in relation to the EU’s engagement in
the Israel-Palestinian prolonged conflict that has many underlying emotions linked with past traumatic
experiences. By doing so, we aim to instigate a discussion between the emotions literature in International
Relations and the European Union studies literature to nuance understanding of the politics of emotions that
increasingly constrain what kind of a global actor the EU actually is or can become
History
School
- Social Sciences
Department
- Politics and International Studies
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Political PsychologyVolume
39Issue
3Pages
503 - 517Citation
PACE, M. and BILGIC, A., 2017. Trauma, emotions and memory in world politics: The case of the European Union’s foreign policy in the Middle East conflict. Political Psychology, 39(3), pp. 503-517.Publisher
© International Society of Political Pyschology. Published by Wiley.Version
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2017-08-25Publication date
2017-12-11Notes
This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: PACE, M. and BILGIC, A., 2017. Trauma, emotions and memory in world politics: The case of the European Union’s foreign policy in the Middle East conflict. Political Psychology, 39(3), pp. 503-517., which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12459. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.ISSN
0162-895XeISSN
1467-9221Publisher version
Language
- en