Face-to-Face Diplomacy

Holmes, Marcus

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“…Rather than simply showing that political behavior has genetic origins, scholars demonstrate how environmental factors activate genetic predispositions (Caspi & Moffitt 2006). Social neuroscience explicitly focuses on how the neural level and social environment interact (Berntson & Cacioppo 2004, Holmes 2018. Evolutionary political psychologists focus on evolved psychological mechanisms designed by natural selection in response to adaptive problems in ancestral environments, which manifest themselves in an interaction with present-day environmental cues (Lopez et al 2011).…”

Section: Genetic Biological and Evolutionary Approachesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Political Psychology in International Relations: Beyond the Paradigms

Kertzer

Tingley

2018

Annu. Rev. Polit. Sci.

102

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Political psychology in international relations (IR) has undergone a dramatic transformation in the past two decades, mirroring the broader changes occurring in IR itself. This review examines the current state of the field. We begin by offering a data-driven snapshot analyzing four years of manuscript classifications at a major IR journal to characterize the questions that IR scholars engaged in psychological research are and are not investigating. We then emphasize six developments in particular, both present-day growth areas (an increased interest in emotions and hot cognition, the rise of more psychologically informed work on public opinion, a nascent research tradition we call the first image reversed, and the rise of neurobiological and evolutionary approaches) and calls for additional scholarship (better integration of the study of mass and elite political behavior and more psychological work in international political economy). Together, these developments constitute some of the directions in which we see the next generation of scholarship heading.

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Section: Genetic Biological and Evolutionary Approachesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Political Psychology in International Relations: Beyond the Paradigms

Kertzer

Tingley

2018

Annu. Rev. Polit. Sci.

102

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“…Emotions are central to the competent and skilful communication in diplomacy but traditionally conceptualized as transactional communicative practices of state behaviour on a global stage (Hall, 2015) or on the micro-level of face-to-face diplomacy (Holmes, 2018). In both these instances, diplomats embody state personalities and must manage their emotions in the mediation of estrangement (Der Derian, 1987).…”

Section: Emotions In Diplomacymentioning

confidence: 99%

Emotional labour in digital diplomacy: perceptions and challenges for European diplomats

Hedling

2023

Emotions and Society

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Social media are increasingly important tools in diplomacy. Diplomats are expected to use social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and Instagram to communicate with each other and with both the domestic and international publics. This form of communication involves displaying positive emotions to generate attention in a competitive information environment. Emotions are essential to managing perceptions, conveying signals and safeguarding state reputations in traditional diplomacy. Commercial demands of online performance, however, activate new dimensions and challenges in the management of emotions in diplomacy. As digital disinformation and populist campaigns have transgressed the boundaries of domestic public debate, diplomats must also display emotional restraint to contain and counter such influence. This article analyses how diplomats perceive the demands of digital diplomacy and how emotions are engaged in their efforts to perform competently both online and offline. The study draws on fieldwork and interviews with 13 European diplomats as well as document analysis of handbooks and training material used to transfer ‘emotional communication skills’ to diplomats. The study findings suggest that the demands of digital diplomacy are challenging traditional enactments of ‘the good diplomat’. In addition to the tensions between outreach and countering communication practices, the emotional labour in digital diplomacy extends beyond what we see on social media. Diplomats perceive the expectations of constant performance online to at times conflict with their professional role offline.

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“…10 In this sense, atmospheres provide one answer to the task that Hutchison and Bleiker (2014) pose as a key challenge to IR emotions research, that is, to theorize how individual emotions become collective and political. The IR emotions literature has developed a range of useful perspectives for thinking about collective emotions, from intergroup emotion theory (Sasley, 2011), to circulations of affect (Ross, 2014;Solomon, 2014), structures of feeling (Koschut, 2017;Van Rythoven, 2021), the institutionalization of emotions (Crawford, 2014), affective communities (Hutchison, 2016), and neuroscience (Gammon, 2020;Holmes, 2018), to name a few. Other recent work has begun to explore what might be called the "atmospheric" aspects of emotional experience, such as the "sensing" of threats at border controls (Gregory, 2019), "situational awareness" of danger during urban terrorism (Krasmann and Hentschel, 2019), the role of sound in security politics (Weitzel, 2018), and circulations of rumors in conflict zones (McGahern, 2016).…”

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Up in the air: Ritualized atmospheres and the global Black Lives Matter movement

Solomon

2023

European Journal of International Relations

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How did the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement of 2020 resonate at a global level? And how did the ritual practices of the movement spread internationally? International Relations (IR) has seen increasing interest in the role of rituals in global politics, and the wider literature on rituals often explores their stabilizing effects while noting how rituals function by working on the collective emotions of participants. Yet what particular kinds of emotional processes lend rituals their power? And how do these ritual emotions disrupt prevailing power structures? This article proposes that conceptualizing these experiences as ritualized atmospheres opens up at least two new avenues for research on rituals, emotions, and global social movements in IR. First, ritualized atmospheres are characterized by their viscerally felt yet also intangible and diffuse features. These tensions offer an affective account of rituals’ often-noted constitutive dual pull between the materialization of political communities while also constructing them as emotionally charged abstractions. Second, the tensions and ambiguities of ritualized atmospheres can generate new horizons for thoughts and actions. Ambient shifts in collective mood can change what may be thought, said, and practiced within ritual contexts, allowing for new discourses and new forms of political action. The article pursues the question of BLM’s global resonance by way of developing these conceptual and empirical arguments.

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Face-to-Face Diplomacy

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Political Psychology in International Relations: Beyond the Paradigms

Political Psychology in International Relations: Beyond the Paradigms

Emotional labour in digital diplomacy: perceptions and challenges for European diplomats

Up in the air: Ritualized atmospheres and the global Black Lives Matter movement

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