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ItemPersonal and Political Emotions in the Mind of the Diplomat(WILEY, 2019-12)Despite growing research on the role of emotions in international relations, little work has analyzed how diplomats and decision‐makers themselves make sense of feelings generated by relationships that have both individual and state‐level implications. Do diplomats consciously experience feelings on behalf of the state? If so, how? How might individual embodied emotions affect how diplomats carry out their roles during negotiations? In the first systematic effort to address and conceptualize these questions empirically, with Henry Kissinger as a case study, we investigate the interplay between the experience of being an individual with personal emotions, on the one hand, and the practice of evaluating performative emotional cues relevant to the state, on the other. We suggest that diplomats recognize some emotional inputs as accruing not to them as individuals but to the state they represent, typically in connection with traditional diplomatic protocols and rituals that are firmly established as state‐level performances. At the same time, however, especially but not exclusively in high‐stakes negotiations involving strong personal relationships, individually embodied feelings with little‐to‐no state relevance can have significant influence on how diplomats define and pursue the national interest.
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ItemReframing Human Rights Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and International Sport(UNIV PENNSYLVANIA PRESS, 2019-01-01)
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ItemThe Ideals of International Sport INTRODUCTION(UNIV PENNSYLVANIA PRESS, 2019-01-01)“Sport has the power to change the world,” South African president Nelson Mandela told the Sporting Club in Monte Carlo in 2000. “It has the power to inspire, it has the power to unite people in a way that little else does. It speaks to youth in a language they understand. . . . Sport can create hope, where once there was only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers. It laughs in the face of all types of discrimination.” ...
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ItemThe Future of Idealism in Sport CONCLUSION(UNIV PENNSYLVANIA PRESS, 2019)
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ItemHarnessing Human Rights to the Olympic Games: Human Rights Watch and the 1993 ‘Stop Beijing’ Campaign(Sage Publications, 2018-04-01)In 1993 Human Rights Watch, one of the two most influential human rights organizations in the world, launched a major campaign to derail Beijing's bid to host the 2000 Olympic Games. This article situates this highly publicized campaign in the context of Sino–US relations, the end of the Cold War, and the ‘victory’ of human rights as a global moral lingua franca. It argues that Human Rights Watch's decision to oppose Beijing's bid stemmed from its new post-Cold War focus on China combined with the organization's search for new ways to secure media attention and the funding that flowed from publicity. The campaign most likely swayed the International Olympic Committee's close vote in favor of Sydney. It also brought Human Rights Watch a windfall of favorable publicity among new audiences. The article argues that the campaign irrevocably inserted broad-based human rights considerations into the Olympic Games, decisively moving moral claims-making around the Olympics beyond the playing field. It also linked Human Rights Watch's moral legitimacy to US power in problematic ways and triggered a powerful anti-US backlash in China.
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ItemThe Telephone and Its Uses in 1980s U.S. Activism(Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press (MIT Press), 2018)Claims that today’s digital technologies are unprecedented in their effect on society are founded on a weak understanding of the roles played by pre-digital technologies. Although the landline phone was the most ubiquitous American technology of the twentieth century, and an important influence on social and political life, it has received little attention in most fields of scholarship. But widespread use of the landline telephone is key to explaining how activists in the U.S. Central America movement of the 1980s sustained their commitment and sense of community. Telephony’s emotional and sensory qualities, underpinned by the powers of the human voice, were significant factors in the Central America movement’s longevity and potency. Communications technology had a profound influence on the character and results of protest movements well before the digital age.
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ItemIdeenpolitik im Kalten Krieg [The Diplomacy of Ideas in the Cold War](C. H. Beck, 2017)
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ItemThe Kissinger Wars(Organization of American HIstorians, 2016)
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Item"'Something to Boast About': Western Enthusiasm for Carter's Human Rights Diplomacy"(Manchester University Press, 2016-01-01)Reasserting America in the 1970s brings together two areas of burgeoning scholarly interest.
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ItemNonstate Actors(Cambridge University Press, 2016-02-29)This volume presents substantially revised and new essays on methodology and approaches in foreign and international relations history.