"Power and Emotion in International Relations" - by CWP alum Todd H Hall

This chapter offers an overview of the complex interrelationships between emotions, affective dynamics, and power in international relations—what it terms the “power–emotion nexus.” This nexus has three dimensions. The first dimension involves power as it operates between potentially conflicting positions or actors, in which actors seek to prevail over one another. The second involves regimes of norms and diffuse social rules that encourage certain political expressions and experiences of emotion, devalue others, and render certain emotions as unacceptable or invisible. The third concerns the ways in which the structure of distributed affective dispositions toward feeling and emotion itself becomes a target of intervention.

https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197698532.013.27 Published: 22 October 2024

Professor Hall earned his PhD from the University of Chicago in 2008 and has held postdoctoral fellowships at Princeton and Harvard, as well as visiting scholar appointments at the Free University of Berlin, Tsinghua University in Beijing, and the University of Tokyo. Prior to joining the University of Oxford, Professor Hall held the position of Assistant Professor in Political Science at the University of Toronto (2010-2013). Research interests extend to the areas of international relations theory; the intersection of emotion, affect, and foreign policy; and Chinese foreign policy. Recent publications include articles in International Organization, International Security, International Studies Quarterly, International Studies Review, Political Psychology, Political Science Quarterly, and Security Studies. Professor Hall has also published a book with Cornell University Press, titled Emotional Diplomacy: Official Emotion on the International Stage, which was recently named co-recipient of the International Studies Association's 2016 Diplomatic Studies Section Book Award.

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