The role of emotions in EU Foreign Policy decision making in times of crisis

Abstract

This Roundtable engages with the role of emotions in EU Foreign Policy in times of crisis. It concentrates on sense making and appraisal processes inside EU institutions as well as among them and investigates several topics around emotions and EU decision-making dynamics: the processes about the making of norms through shared histories, emergence of emotion norms within the EU about global issues, member state relationships, role of emotions in the Council meetings, emotions as felt by EU diplomats focusing on how individual feelings interact with institutional policies, and how policy priorities get determined by ranking norms against interests. It aims to conceptualise the internal roles that emotions play in the EU’s Foreign Policy by looking at internal processes of self-reflection on identity, roles, values, norms and priorities that are emotionally charged by officials, member states or EU institutions. By doing so, it also engages with the issue of level of analysis for emotions in research within the EU. Bringing together papers that mostly focus on one level of analysis, the Roundtable opens up the debate about how individually felt but institutionally expressed emotions can be conceptualised further in the study of the EU Foreign Policy.

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