Emotionen in den Internationalen Beziehungen

Emotions, such as compassion for the suffering of others or the fear of war and poverty, are omnipresent in international politics. Nevertheless, for a long time reason and not feeling were considered to be the greatest human achievements. However, the most recent groundbreaking findings in the neurosciences call this dictum into question: Emotion and rationality, feeling and reason, do not represent a contradiction but rather condition one another. This leads to fundamental questions that the discipline of international relations (IR) should ask itself: What can emotions contribute to the central research questions and analyses of international politics? Is there a theory of emotion and is it even desirable? How can emotions be captured meth-odologically and empirically?

With contributions by
Harald Müller, Cilja Harders, Bilgin Ayata, Robin Markwica, Gabi Schlag, Bastian Loges, Regina Heller, Maéva Clément, Sybille Reinke de Buitrago, Jelena Cupać and Simon Koschut.