Introduction to the Special Issue Anxiety and Change in International Relations

Abstract

Despite being the prevailing emotion of our times, anxiety has received scant attention in the international relations discipline. While political theorists and philosophers have long paid attention to anxiety as distinct from and constitutive of fear, international relations theory has assumed that much of international behavior is guided by fears of specific threats to state survival.

Keywords

International Relations, Anxiety, Change, Special Issue

Citation

Rumelili, Bahar, "Introduction to the Special Issue Anxiety and Change in International Relations", INTERNATIONALRELATIONS, Vol 19, No 73, 2022, pp. 1-11.

Affiliations

• Bahar Rumelili, Professor, Koç University, Department of International Relations, İstanbul