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The ties that bind: on affective ties, power, nationalism, and competition over the global distribution of feeling
- Abstract:
- Affective ties encompass a broad family of emotional phenomena, including love, affection, attachment,anddevotion.Affectivetiesmayappeardeeplypersonal,andtheymostcertainly are. But they are also important resources for the exercise of political power in international politics– not only as vulnerabilities that can be exploited for coercion but also, and more significantly, as means to mobilise action and sacrifice. Viewed from the vantage point of political agents, affective ties are thus power resources whose distribution in the international system shapes their strategies and choices. Viewed from the perspective of the system, the international realm is not only characterised by struggles over material capabilities or ideas but also competition over affective ties. Correspondingly, nationalism is not simply an identity. It is a collection of techniques and practices for generating and capturing affective ties that has emerged as a highly effective contender in this contest, with crucial implications for how the international system is organised. That being said, other forms of eliciting affective ties also persist.
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1017/S1752971925000028
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Journal:
- International Theory: A Journal of International Politics, Law and Philosophy More from this journal
- Volume:
- 17
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 175 - 207
- Publication date:
- 2025-03-24
- Acceptance date:
- 2024-12-27
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1752-9727
- ISSN:
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1752-9719
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English
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2083010
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pubs:2083010
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2025-02-03
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- Hall and James.
- Copyright date:
- 2025
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- © The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original article is properly cited. The written permission of Cambridge University Press must be obtained prior to any commercial use.
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- The author accepted manuscript (AAM) of this paper has been made available under the University of Oxford’s Open Access Publications Policy, and a CC BY public copyright licence has been applied.
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