National emotions Have Growing Importance in Globalized Politics
Do emotions – and not just realpolitik or economics – play a key role in geopolitics? The thesis that they do powerfully shape international developments is masterfully argued by Dominique Moïsi in his latest book, The Geopolitics of Emotion: how cultures of fear, humiliation, and hope are reshaping the world (translated from the French for publication in New York: Doubleday, 2009).