Workshop of ACES project ‘Emotions in European Politics’  Organizers and chairs: Linda Bos, Hanna L. Muehlenhoff, Rosa Sanchez Salgado and Andrew Telford  Emotions matter in international politics. For example, fear, anger but also empathy shape European political responses to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Although scholarship in International Relations and Political Geography has long acknowledged the role of Read more

EU feels presented a paper on emotions and Othering dynamics in a European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Joint Session on ‘Emotions and norms in EU crisis diplomacy’ held in Edinburgh (and online) from April 20th-22nd.   Our paper proposes a theorisation of Othering and emotion norms, drawing on feminist, postcolonial and Intergroup Emotion theories. We Read more

EU feels presented a paper about emotions and Othering dynamics in the Conference organized by the Research Network on Sociology of Emotions of the European Sociological Association (ESA) in Hamburg in September 2022.   Current academic studies about Othering dynamics in foreign policy do not discuss explicitly the role of emotions in Othering processes. To fill in this Read more

Over the last decade, an emerging body of research has sought to uncover the role that emotions play in politics. Drawing on two new studies, Rosa M. Sanchez Salgado assesses the impact emotions have on debates in the European Parliament and the wider EU policy process. EU officials and representatives are usually pictured as technocratic and rational Read more

Published by Europp, December 8th 2001 EU foreign policy is often viewed as a rational and technocratic exercise, but do emotions also play a role in shaping foreign policy outcomes? Drawing on a new special issue, Seda Gürkan and Özlem Terzi explain why emotions should be a central focus in EU foreign policy research. The Read more