Fear and Affection in International Relations

Recommended Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of English.

Teaching Methods

With recourse to lectured based seminars, the class structure presupposes active student participation, centred on core readings. On top of key lectures, critical analysis and discussion of case studies are privileged throughout the course.

Learning Outcomes

Main learning outcome:

- Understanding the modes of production and dissemination of emotions that influence international politics

 

Specific outcomes and methodological skills:

- Knowledge of IR litterature on the place of emotions in international politics

- Understanding the relative weight of structural and emotioal conditions or international politics

- Deconstruction of discourses based on emotions in international politics

- Elaborate a bibligraphical revision and discuss critically and comparatively relevant literature

- Elaborate a research work

- Present and discuss orally the main conclusions of autonomous study

- Use the comparative or case study method

- Critically analyse various sources of information.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Theoretical debates

1.1. Realism and fear in IR

1.2. Constructivism and shared subjetivities in IR

1.3. Feminism and empathy in IR

2. Emotions, agency and power in IR

2.1. Populism and IR

2.2. Politics of pity and IR

3. An affective turn in IR? Empathy, fiendship and love in the global sphere.

Head Lecturer(s)

José Manuel Marques Silva Pureza

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Periodic or by final exam as given in the course information: 100.0%

Bibliography

- Buzan, B. (1983): People, states and fear. The national security problem in International Relations. Brighton, Weatsheaf Books

- Boltanski, L. (1999): Distant suffering. Morality, media and politics. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press bell hooks (2004): The will to change. Men, masculinity and love. N. York, Atria Books

- Pashakhanlou, A. H. (2017): Realism and fear in International Relations. Morgenthau, Waltz and Mearsheimer reconsidered. London, Palgrave

- Cossarini, P. and Vallespín, F. (2019): Populism and passions. London and N. York, Routledge

- Koshut, S. (2020), The power of emotions in world politics. London and N. York, Routledge