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Emotional Motives in International Relations: Rage, Rancour and Revenge

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Emotional Motives in International Relations: Rage, Rancour and Revenge

Rupert Brodersen, "Emotional Motives in International Relations: Rage, Rancour and Revenge "
English | ISBN: 0815386672 | 2018 | 166 pages | EPUB | 949 KB

The study of emotions in International Relations is gaining wide-spread attention. Within the "emotional turn" in IR the emotion of rage however has not been given sufficient attention, instead being used as short-hand for irrationality and excess.
Rage is arguably one of the oldest and most destructive emotions in human affairs. This book offers an innovative approach that seeks to split rage into its traditional manifestation of aggression and violence, and into a less visible, passive manifestation of Nietzschean Ressentiment. This model facilitates a comprehensive understanding of revisionist motivation, from the violence of ISIS to the oppositionism of Putin’s Russia. The aim is to illustrate how a lack of violence can belie vengeful impulses and a
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