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14 - Exceptionalism, Counterterrorism, and the Emotional Politics of Human Rights

from Part II - Emotions in Foreign Policy Decision Making and in War and Peace

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2015

Yohan Ariffin
Affiliation:
Université de Lausanne, Switzerland
Jean-Marc Coicaud
Affiliation:
Rutgers University, New Jersey
Vesselin Popovski
Affiliation:
United Nations University, Tokyo
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Emotions in International Politics
Beyond Mainstream International Relations
, pp. 315 - 340
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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