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Emotional Diplomacy Todd H. Hall

Emotional Diplomacy By Todd H. Hall

Emotional Diplomacy by Todd H. Hall


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In Emotional Diplomacy, Todd H. Hall explores the politics of officially expressed emotion on the international stage, looking at the ways in which state actors strategically deploy emotional behavior to shape the perceptions of others. Examining diverse instances of emotional behavior, Hall reveals that official emotional displays are not...

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Emotional Diplomacy: Official Emotion on the International Stage by Todd H. Hall

In Emotional Diplomacy, Todd H. Hall explores the politics of officially expressed emotion on the international stage, looking at the ways in which state actors strategically deploy emotional behavior to shape the perceptions of others. Examining diverse instances of emotional behavior, Hall reveals that official emotional displays are not simply cheap talk but rather play an important 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 even the use of armed force.Emotional Diplomacy provides the theoretical tools necessary for understanding the nature and significance of state-level emotional behavior and offers new observations of how states seek reconciliation, strategically respond to unforeseen crises, and demonstrate resolve in the face of perceived provocations. Hall investigates three specific strands of emotional diplomacy: those rooted in anger, sympathy, and guilt. Presenting original research drawing on interviews and sources in five different languages, Hall 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. He also demonstrates how his arguments can be extended to further cases ranging from Sino-Japanese relations to diplomatic interactions in Latin America. Emotional Diplomacy offers a unique take on the intersection of strategic action and emotional display, offering a means for making sense of why states appear to behave emotionally.

Emotional Diplomacy Reviews

Hall paints a fascinating picture of emotionalism as both diplomatic theater and rational calculation.

* Foreign Affairs *

Hall offers an innovative theoretical lens.... to explain interstate relations that seemingly belie the logic of rational choice. The volume offers an original approach to explain political crises, demonstrating the power of emotional diplomacy as a significant driver of statecraft.

* International Affairs *

Supplementing a rich theoretical framework with a set of compelling case studies and an in-depth conceptual exploration, Hall's work is an important contribution to the study of international relations.... He provides persuasive evidence in support of his thesis that contemporary analyses must be extended to non-material state aspirations.

* Journal of East Asian Studies *

With a study that is rife with political lessons and rich with analytic achievements, Hall has done more than one profession a great service. Combining rationalist and constructivist political science with contemporary history, he defines emotional diplomacy as 'coordinated state-level behavior that explicitly and officially projects the image of a particular emotional response toward other states.' Hall's concept expands the study of state-level encounters, specifically among heads of state, by focusing on the premises, expressions and consequences of emotional practice as an element of political competence.

* New Diplomatic History *

About Todd H. Hall

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 Investigations
Chapter 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 Anger
Chapter 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 Sympathy
Chapter 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 Years
Chapter 5. Further Studies in Emotional Diplomacy
The Diplomacy of Anger
The Diplomacy of Sympathy
The Diplomacy of Guilt
Conclusion
Additional Strains
Quotidian and Signature Forms of Emotional Diplomacy
Official Emotion, Popular Emotion, and Stickiness
Notes
References
Index

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CIN0801453011VG
9780801453014
0801453011
Emotional Diplomacy: Official Emotion on the International Stage by Todd H. Hall
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Cornell University Press
20151125
264
Winner of Cowinner, DPLST Book Prize (Diplomatic Studies Sec.
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