"In the early 1970s, Penny Coleman married Daniel O'Donnell, a young Vietnam veteran. It soon became clear to her that Daniel was deeply troubled. As their relationship began to unravel, Daniel tried to kill himself. Tragically, he was ultimately successful. Daniel was sufferin…
Des psychanalystes français et étrangers proposent dans ce livre une approche psychanalytique des drames de notre société contemporaine. Leur réflexion porte sur certaines situations extrêmes qui ont marqué et bouleversé notre époque : guerres mondiales, totalitarismes et génoci…
No journalist is better situated to reckon with the psychology of war than David Finkel. In The Good Soldiers, his bestselling account from the front lines of Baghdad, Finkel shadowed the men of a US infantry battalion as they carried out a gruelling 15-month tour that changed a…
Emotions, politics and war
by Åhäll, Linda, Gregory, Thomas
fromInterventions (Routledge (Firm))
Providing a range of perspectives from a diversity of methodological approaches on the conditions, maintenance and interpretation of emotions, the contributors interrogate the multiple ways in which emotions function and matter to the study of global politics.
Agrowing number of scholars have sought to re-centre emotions in our study of international politics, however an overarching book on how emotions matter to the study of politics and war is yet to be published. This volumeis aimed at filling that gap, proceeding from the assumpti…