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Trauma, emotions and memory in world politics: The case of the European Union’s foreign policy in the Middle East conflict

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posted on 2017-10-12, 12:41 authored by Michelle Pace, Ali BilgicAli Bilgic
This article focuses on the impact of emotions on the European Union (EU)’s international identity and agency in the context of the memory of trauma. Emotions are understood as performances through which an actor expresses itself to others while constructing its identity, creating its agency, and potentially affecting the social order. It is argued that the memory of trauma is translated into EU foreign policy practice through emotional performances of EU representatives. Empirically, we explore this impact in relation to the EU’s engagement in the Israel-Palestinian prolonged conflict that has many underlying emotions linked with past traumatic experiences. By doing so, we aim to instigate a discussion between the emotions literature in International Relations and the European Union studies literature to nuance understanding of the politics of emotions that increasingly constrain what kind of a global actor the EU actually is or can become

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School

  • Social Sciences

Department

  • Politics and International Studies

Published in

Political Psychology

Volume

39

Issue

3

Pages

503 - 517

Citation

PACE, M. and BILGIC, A., 2017. Trauma, emotions and memory in world politics: The case of the European Union’s foreign policy in the Middle East conflict. Political Psychology, 39(3), pp. 503-517.

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© International Society of Political Pyschology. Published by Wiley.

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Acceptance date

2017-08-25

Publication date

2017-12-11

Notes

This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: PACE, M. and BILGIC, A., 2017. Trauma, emotions and memory in world politics: The case of the European Union’s foreign policy in the Middle East conflict. Political Psychology, 39(3), pp. 503-517., which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12459. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.

ISSN

0162-895X

eISSN

1467-9221

Language

  • en

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