Harald Edinger
Biographic Data
| ID | 4096572 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Harald Edinger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Harald |
| FAMILY NAME | Edinger |
| SIGNATURE | EDINGER H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ca' Foscari University of Venice |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9677-629X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Adding Insult to Injury? Status Denial, Resentment, and the Foundations of Russian Foreign Policy
Contempt, fear, and hubris: The 2008 Russian–Georgian war through the lens of affect
Hooked on a Feeling: Russia's Annexation of Crimea Through the Lens of Emotion
This article tests the plausibility of an affect‐centered framework for foreign policy analysis, using the 2014 annexation of Crimea as an illustrative case. It identifies questions left open by prevailing accounts based on international relations theory and shows how a supplementary conceptual lens can improve existing explanations. The affective perspective suggests that the Russian president deemed intervention in Ukraine without alternative. …
Offensive ideas: Structural realism, classical realism and Putin's war on Ukraine
Controversy has surrounded realist explanations of the causes of Russia's war against Ukraine, particularly John Mearsheimer's charge of western responsibility. This article seeks to clarify and contextualize his argument, situating it within the broader paradigm. Realism, and even its narrower offensive sub-school, offers a wide range of contrasting interpretations, depending on which major actors are studied and what characteristics they are en…
Theory of Irrational Politics: Classical Realist Lessons on Foreign Policy Analysis
This article argues that efforts to strengthen the theoretical foundations for foreign policy analysis (FPA) should take as a vantage point the smallest social unit—the human being. It advocates far-reaching engagement with psychology and the life sciences for insights on the individual in the social context. Research on emotion, as a general human phenomenon and one that has been extensively researched across disciplines, is thought to offer a p…
Bored enough yet? International order, ideology, and what it takes to get history started again
Order needs an ideational foundation that provides it with legitimacy. Most scholars writing on international order, though they employ fundamentally different approaches and intellectual histories, appear to agree on this. This book review essay contrasts some of these different perspectives. It reviews Francis Fukuyama's eminent The end of history and the last man and asks what it can tell us about the ideational and psychological conditions un…
The Foreign Policy of the Attalids of Pergamum
Offensive ideas: Structural realism, classical realism and Putin's war on Ukraine
Controversy has surrounded realist explanations of the causes of Russia's war against Ukraine, particularly John Mearsheimer's charge of western responsibility. This article seeks to clarify and contextualize his argument, situating it within the broader paradigm. Realism, and even its narrower offensive sub-school, offers a wide range of contrasting interpretations, depending on which major actors are studied and what characteristics they are en…
Hooked on a Feeling: Russia's Annexation of Crimea Through the Lens of Emotion
This article tests the plausibility of an affect‐centered framework for foreign policy analysis, using the 2014 annexation of Crimea as an illustrative case. It identifies questions left open by prevailing accounts based on international relations theory and shows how a supplementary conceptual lens can improve existing explanations. The affective perspective suggests that the Russian president deemed intervention in Ukraine without alternative. …
Theory of Irrational Politics: Classical Realist Lessons on Foreign Policy Analysis
This article argues that efforts to strengthen the theoretical foundations for foreign policy analysis (FPA) should take as a vantage point the smallest social unit—the human being. It advocates far-reaching engagement with psychology and the life sciences for insights on the individual in the social context. Research on emotion, as a general human phenomenon and one that has been extensively researched across disciplines, is thought to offer a p…
The Foreign Policy of the Attalids of Pergamum
Bored enough yet? International order, ideology, and what it takes to get history started again
Order needs an ideational foundation that provides it with legitimacy. Most scholars writing on international order, though they employ fundamentally different approaches and intellectual histories, appear to agree on this. This book review essay contrasts some of these different perspectives. It reviews Francis Fukuyama's eminent The end of history and the last man and asks what it can tell us about the ideational and psychological conditions un…
Theory of Irrational Politics: Classical Realist Lessons on Foreign Policy Analysis
This article argues that efforts to strengthen the theoretical foundations for foreign policy analysis (FPA) should take as a vantage point the smallest social unit—the human being. It advocates far-reaching engagement with psychology and the life sciences for insights on the individual in the social context. Research on emotion, as a general human phenomenon and one that has been extensively researched across disciplines, is thought to offer a p…
Offensive ideas: Structural realism, classical realism and Putin's war on Ukraine
Controversy has surrounded realist explanations of the causes of Russia's war against Ukraine, particularly John Mearsheimer's charge of western responsibility. This article seeks to clarify and contextualize his argument, situating it within the broader paradigm. Realism, and even its narrower offensive sub-school, offers a wide range of contrasting interpretations, depending on which major actors are studied and what characteristics they are en…
Hooked on a Feeling: Russia's Annexation of Crimea Through the Lens of Emotion
This article tests the plausibility of an affect‐centered framework for foreign policy analysis, using the 2014 annexation of Crimea as an illustrative case. It identifies questions left open by prevailing accounts based on international relations theory and shows how a supplementary conceptual lens can improve existing explanations. The affective perspective suggests that the Russian president deemed intervention in Ukraine without alternative. …
Contempt, fear, and hubris: The 2008 Russian–Georgian war through the lens of affect
Adding Insult to Injury? Status Denial, Resentment, and the Foundations of Russian Foreign Policy
Political science (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Foreign policy (5 works) · International Relations and Foreign Policy (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Political economy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Elite (2 works)