We will not Swallow This Bitter Fruit: Theorizing a Diplomacy of Anger

Hall, Todd H.

doi:10.1080/09636412.2011.625771

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“…No one would fail to understand the compatriots' hatred and fights when the country is provoked' (Johnson and Shanker 2012;see also Gries 2004;Löwenheim and Heimann 2008;Hall 2011). It is hypothetical.…”

Section: Group Emotion Is Often Stronger Than Individual Emotionmentioning

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Feeling like a state: social emotion and identity

2014

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Can one use emotion at anything other than the individual level of analysis? Emotion happens in biological bodies, not in the space between them, and this implies that group emotion is nothing but a collection of individuals experiencing the same emotion. This article contends that group-level emotion is powerful, pervasive, and irreducible to individuals. People do not merely associate with groups (or states), they can become those groups through shared culture, interaction, contagion, and common group interest. Bodies produce emotion that identities experience: grouplevel emotion can be stronger than, and different from, emotion experienced as an individual; group members share, validate, and police each others' feelings; and these feelings structure relations within and between groups in international politics. Emotion goes with identity.

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Section: Group Emotion Is Often Stronger Than Individual Emotionmentioning

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Feeling like a state: social emotion and identity

2014

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“…Hutchison and Bleiker (2014: 496--7) find a distinction between macro and micro approaches to emotion, and suggest that this conceptualization offers a way forward in the key question surrounding the politics of emotion, which is how individual emotions become collective and social. While there are a number of insightful IR studies that focus on emotions at the state level (Hall, 2011;Löwenheim and Heimann, 2008), a handful of other studies aptly illustrate the role of emotions at more micro levels. Saurette (2006) illustrates how humiliation surrounding 9/11 likely influenced not only American elites but also pundit communities and the wider public.…”

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Micro-moves in International Relations theory

Solomon

Steele

2016

European Journal of International Relations

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This article posits empirical and political reasons for recent 'micro--moves' in several contemporary debates, and seeks to further develop them in future International Relations studies. As evidenced by growing trends in studies of practices, emotions, and the everyday, there is continuing broad dissatisfaction with grand or structural theory's value without 'going down' to 'lower levels' of analysis where structures are enacted and contested. We suggest that empirics of the last fifteen years -including the war on terror and the Arab Spring -have pushed scholars into increasingly micropolitical positions and analytical frameworks. Drawing upon insights from Gilles Deleuze, William Connolly, and Henri Lefebvre, among others, we argue that attention to three issues -affect, space, and time -hold promise to further develop micropolitical perspectives on and in IR, particularly on issues of power, identity, and change. (Routledge, 2008). He is currently working on a project investigating restraint in global politics, an edited volume on methods and constructivism, and two journal symposia on the politics of constructivism. He is also the co--editor of three books and one handbook, and has published articles in a number of international studies journals. 2 Every macro--theory presupposes, whether implicitly or explicitly, a micro--theory to back up its explanations--Steven Lukes, Introduction to Emile Durkheim's The Rules of Sociological Method, (1982: 16) The balance one strikes between the macro and micro is a tension that has characterized social theory since at least Durkheim's time. Whether it is titled a level--of--analysis (Singer, 1961) or agent--structure (Wendt, 1987) 'problem', International Relations (IR) has faced its own related quandaries over which level(s) should be regarded theoretical, methodological, and even normative primacy. Since Kenneth Waltz's (1959) critique of the first and second images as inadequate to capture the most important dynamics of world politics, IR has at times focused within a grand theory mode that too--often eschews the myriad of sub--system and sub--state phenomena. Attention to anarchy and its inescapable pressures on nation--states were said to offer the most reliable insights into the 'small number of big and important things' of which IR should mostly concern itself (Waltz, 1986: 329). While a recent and persuasive 2013 special issue of European Journal of International Relations considered whether we were at the 'End of IR theory', there continues to be a default admonition to scholars, and students, to re--embrace grand theory (Snyder, 2013; Harrison and Mitchell, 2014). A 15 December 2011 post by Professor Brian Rathbun on the popular blog 'Duck of Minerva' provides ample illustration of this move --an exaltation to all IR scholars to find the 'big' theoretical argument that will make them famous. The post asks graduate students (especially) whether the empirical studies that 3 seem to have permeated IR as of late 'will make you the next Robert Keohane? Or Ale...

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“…2 Sterling-Folker rightly argues that realists need to reclaim their controversial concern for human biology but with attention to the variability of its effects in the social world (2002,. I argue that elements of this orientation already exist in the work of Morgenthau and Niebuhr. theory -in order to make sense of what emotions are and how they affect political behavior (Ross 2006(Ross , 2014Bially Mattern, 2011;Bleiker and Hutchison 2008;Crawford 2009;Mercer 2010;Hall 2011;Sasley 2011). In the meantime, under our noses lies a theoretical tradition -political realism -whose long-standing concern for evil, fear, and tragedy indicates a potentially bountiful source for thinking about human emotion and its role in international politics.…”

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Realism, emotion, and dynamic allegiances in global politics

Ross

2013

Int. Theory

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This article appeals to classical realism for new insights into the role emotions play in shifting the terrain of political allegiance in global politics. Although undetected in readings emphasizing rational statecraft, realists such as Hans Morgenthau and Reinhold Niebuhr were centrally concerned with human emotions and their political impact. While following the intellectual currents of their time in regarding emotions as fixed impulses, these realists' deep appreciation for the contingencies of history also led them to cast emotions as socially conditioned mechanisms of adaptation. By revisiting the texts of classical realism, this paper develops a fresh account of how emotion responds to and engenders change in the social world -in particular, change in the location of political allegiances. I then show how Morgenthau and Niebuhr applied these ideas not only to the nation-state but also to the most vexing transnational phenomena of their time -communism and liberal internationalism. In conclusion, the paper speculates that these reflections on dynamic allegiances at the transnational level offer realists and other international relation theorists insight into the emotional appeal, adaptability, and organizational complexity of contemporary non-state movements and actors.

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We will not Swallow This Bitter Fruit: Theorizing a Diplomacy of Anger

Cited by 51 publications

References 6 publications

Feeling like a state: social emotion and identity

Feeling like a state: social emotion and identity

Micro-moves in International Relations theory

Realism, emotion, and dynamic allegiances in global politics

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