Researching Emotions in International Relations

1. Introduction: Methodological Challenges and Opportunities for the Study of Emotions
Maéva Clément, Eric Sangar

Part I. The Influence of Emotions on Actors and Politics

2. Eugene Gendlin and the Feel of International Politics
Erik Ringmar

3. Interpreting Affect Between State Leaders: Assessing the Political Friendship Between Winston S. Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt
Yuri Hoef

4. More Rigor to Emotions! A Comparative, Qualitative Content Analysis of Anger in Russian Foreign Policy
Regina Heller

Part II. Emotions Shaped by Powerful Actors and Institutions

5. Auto-ethnography and the Study of Affect and Emotion in World Politics: Investigating Security Discourses at London’s Imperial War Museum
Audrey Reeves

6. A Plea for a Discursive Approach to Emotions: The Example of the French Airmen’s Relation to Violence
Mathias Delori

7. The Formation of the ‘Western’ Strategic Gaze: A Case Study on Emotional Irrelevance in International Politics
Christophe Wasinski

8. Of Heroes and Cowards: A Computer-Based Analysis of Narratives Justifying the Use of Force
Eric Sangar, Maéva Clément, Thomas Lindemann

Part III. Discursive Agency and Emotions

9. Moving Images and the Politics of Pity: A Multilevel Approach to the Interpretation of Images and Emotions
Gabi Schlag

10. Political Emotions as Public Processes: Analyzing Transnational Ressentiments in Discourses
Reinhard Wolf

11. Emotions and Time: Approaching Emotions Through a Fusion of Horizons
Clara Eroukhmanoff, Bernardo Teles Fazendeiro

12. Speaking from the Heart: Emotion Discourse Analysis in International Relations
Simon Koschut

13. Grasping the Role of Emotions in IR via Qualitative Content Analysis and Visual Analysis
Sybille Reinke Buitrago

14. Methods and Methodologies for the Study of Emotions in World Politics
Roland Bleiker, Emma Hutchison

Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, Political Theory, Political Communication, Emotion