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Emotional Diplomacy: Official Emotion on the International Stage
Emotional Diplomacy explores the politics of expressed emotion on the international stage, looking at the ways state actors strategically deploy emotional behavior to manipulate the perceptions of others. By examining diverse instances of emotional behavior, Todd H. Hall reveals that official emotional displays play an integral role in the strategies and interactions of state actors. Emotional diplomacy is more than rhetoric; as this book demonstrates, its implications extend to the provision of economic and military aid, great-power cooperation, and the use of armed force.
Hall investigates three strands of emotional diplomacy: those rooted in anger, sympathy, and guilt. His research, drawn on sources and interviews in five different languages, provides new insights into the 1995–1996 Taiwan Strait Crisis, the post-9/11 reactions of China and Russia, and relations between West Germany and Israel after World War II. Emotional Diplomacy offers a unique take on the intersection of strategic action and emotional display, a means for understanding why states behave emotionally. Hall provides the theoretical tools necessary for understanding the nature and significance of state-level emotional behavior through new observations of how states seek reconciliation, strategically respond to unforeseen crises, and demonstrate resolve in the face of perceived provocations.
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Emotional Diplomacy: Official Emotion on the International Stage
Emotional Diplomacy explores the politics of expressed emotion on the international stage, looking at the ways state actors strategically deploy emotional behavior to manipulate the perceptions of others. By examining diverse instances of emotional behavior, Todd H. Hall reveals that official emotional displays play an integral role in the strategies and interactions of state actors. Emotional diplomacy is more than rhetoric; as this book demonstrates, its implications extend to the provision of economic and military aid, great-power cooperation, and the use of armed force.
Hall investigates three strands of emotional diplomacy: those rooted in anger, sympathy, and guilt. His research, drawn on sources and interviews in five different languages, provides new insights into the 1995–1996 Taiwan Strait Crisis, the post-9/11 reactions of China and Russia, and relations between West Germany and Israel after World War II. Emotional Diplomacy offers a unique take on the intersection of strategic action and emotional display, a means for understanding why states behave emotionally. Hall provides the theoretical tools necessary for understanding the nature and significance of state-level emotional behavior through new observations of how states seek reconciliation, strategically respond to unforeseen crises, and demonstrate resolve in the face of perceived provocations.
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Emotional Diplomacy: Official Emotion on the International Stage
Emotional Diplomacy explores the politics of expressed emotion on the international stage, looking at the ways state actors strategically deploy emotional behavior to manipulate the perceptions of others. By examining diverse instances of emotional behavior, Todd H. Hall reveals that official emotional displays play an integral role in the strategies and interactions of state actors. Emotional diplomacy is more than rhetoric; as this book demonstrates, its implications extend to the provision of economic and military aid, great-power cooperation, and the use of armed force.
Hall investigates three strands of emotional diplomacy: those rooted in anger, sympathy, and guilt. His research, drawn on sources and interviews in five different languages, provides new insights into the 1995–1996 Taiwan Strait Crisis, the post-9/11 reactions of China and Russia, and relations between West Germany and Israel after World War II. Emotional Diplomacy offers a unique take on the intersection of strategic action and emotional display, a means for understanding why states behave emotionally. Hall provides the theoretical tools necessary for understanding the nature and significance of state-level emotional behavior through new observations of how states seek reconciliation, strategically respond to unforeseen crises, and demonstrate resolve in the face of perceived provocations.
Todd H. Hall is Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations and Tutorial Fellow in Politics, Saint Anne’s College, at the University of Oxford.
Table of Contents
IntroductionChapter 1. Emotional Diplomacy What Is Emotional Diplomacy? Emotional Diplomacy and the Emotions in International Relations Official Emotion as Emotional Labor Emotional Diplomacy as a Team Performance The Consequences of Engaging in Emotional Diplomacy Variation in Emotional Diplomacy Empirical InvestigationsChapter 2. The Diplomacy of Anger Explaining the 1995–96 Taiwan Strait Crisis from the Traditional Perspective The Diplomacy of Anger Empirical Investigations Looking at the Crisis as an Episode of Coercion vs. Official AngerChapter 3. The Diplomacy of Sympathy Explaining the RF and PRC Responses in Terms of Traditional Statecraft The Diplomacy of Sympathy Empirical Investigations Looking at RF and PRC Responses as Official SympathyChapter 4. The Diplomacy of Guilt Explaining Federal Republic of Germany (FRG)-Israeli Relations from the Traditional Perspective The Diplomacy of Guilt Empirical Investigations The Luxembourg Agreement Bullets Instead of Ambassadors: FRG Weapons for Israel The Path to Normalization Subsequent YearsChapter 5. Further Studies in Emotional Diplomacy The Diplomacy of Anger The Diplomacy of Sympathy The Diplomacy of GuiltConclusion Additional Strains Quotidian and Signature Forms of Emotional Diplomacy Official Emotion, Popular Emotion, and "Stickiness"Notes References Index
Todd H. Hall argues credibly in Emotional Diplomacy that, when conveying emotions, states engage in action that cannot otherwise be readily explained and finds that such emotional diplomacy sometimes has unexpected consequences. I found Hall's empirical accounts—of China's anger in the Taiwan Straits, Russian and Chinese sympathy for the United States in the wake of 9/11, and guilt shown by West Germany in its support for Israel—convincing, and they provide strong evidence that emotional diplomacy can sometimes be effective.
Jonathan Mercer
Todd H. Hall's groundbreaking book on 'emotional diplomacy’ explains the nature, significance, and consequences of the strategic use of emotion in international politics. It exploits the best work on rational signaling, intersubjective meanings, and psychology to create a theory of emotional diplomacy backed with rigorous empirical cases. This is a creative and important book.
Clark McCauley
In Emotional Diplomacy, Todd H. Hall explicitly recognizes that official emotion is not just the aggregation of individual emotions but is used strategically to achieve political goals. He provides engaging historical cases in which official emotion is salient and interprets these cases to challenge standard rational-choice models of diplomacy.
