Exploring Emotions in Turkey-Iran Relations: Affective Politics of Partnership and Rivalry [Hardcover]

This book explores emotional-affective implications of partnership and rivalry in Turkey-Iran relations. The main proposition of this research underlines the theoretical need to reconnect psycho-social conceptualizations of emotionality, affectivity, normativity, and relationality. By combining key theoretical findings, the book offers a holistic conceptual framework to better analyze emotional-affective configuration of relational rules and roles in trans-governmental neighborhood interactions. The empirical chapters look at four consecutive periods extending from the end of First World War (November 1918) to the resuscitation of US sanctions against Iran (November 2018). In each episode, global-regional contours and dyadic dynamics of Ankara-Tehran relationship are examined critically. The century-long history of emotional entanglements and affective arrangements exposes complex patterning of feeling rules. Two countervailing constellations still reign over relational narratives. While the 1514 ?ald1ran war myth reproduces sectarian resentment and confrontational climate, the 1639 Kasr-1 ^irin peace story reconstructs secular sympathy and collaborative atmosphere in Turkish-Iranian affairs.1. Introduction: Historical Psychology of Turkey-Iran Neighborhood Relations.- 2. The Formative Emotional Climate of Turkish-Iranian Relations (1918-1945).- 3. The Affective Atmosphere of Ankara-Tehran Alignment in Cold War (1946-1979).- 4. Reformative Psychology in Turkey-Iran interactions (1980-2000).- 5. Psycho-Social Revisions in Turkey-Iran Neighborhood (2001-2018).- 6. Conclusion: Overall Findings and Research Recommendations.

Exploring Emotions in Turkey-Iran Relations provides valuable historical and theoretical insights into Turkish-Iranian affairs, focusing on emotional diplomacy and affective norms. It also gives a detailed analysis of each countrys domestic factors and how domestic polly