Seminar series Collective emotions and national security elites Analysis of vicarious shame in US and Israeli foreign policy Add to calendar 2023-03-02 16:30 2023-03-02 18:00 Europe/Rome Collective emotions and national security elites Sala Belvedere Villa Schifanoia YYYY-MM-DD Print Share on Facebook Share on X Share on LinkedIn Send by email When 02 March 2023 16:30 - 18:00 CET Where Sala Belvedere Villa Schifanoia Organised by Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies Department of Political and Social Sciences GGP: Global Governance Programme Decentering Eurocentrism In this seminar series, Carlotta Minnella will present a theory of the micro-foundations of group-based shame for U.S. and Israeli foreign policy elites. Are state national security bureaucracies receptive to naming and shaming strategies? Under what conditions do they experience group-based shame as a result of their association with the country they represent? This paper builds a theory of the micro-foundations of group-based shame for U.S. and Israeli foreign policy elites. It argues that elites experience the emotion of shame at both personal and group level and empirically examine it from in-depth semi-structured interviews with U.S. and Israeli national security officials to advance an innovative theoretical framework to understand and test the influence of group-based shame on state foreign policy elites. The study relies on an original adaptation of the shame experience interview scale employed in social and cognitive psychology to elite interviewing in International Relations. Officials’ attitudes are measured on the basis of compliance with international norms, namely, the Convention against Torture, the Law of Occupation, and the Law of Armed Conflict (LOAC), as well as great power responsibility and perceptions of declining international standing in global politics. The paper finds that while affective responses differ, officials feel shame as a result of the violation of an international norm; when naming and shaming campaigns are targeted against the country, the source of the shaming matters in driving an emotional reaction. Contact(s): Alessandra Caldini Scientific Organiser(s): Stephanie Hofmann (EUI - Schuman Centre / SPS) Speaker(s): Carlotta Minnella (Migration Policy Centre of the EUI’s Robert Schuman Centre)