The edited volume presents and explores a range of methodological approaches to study the role of emotions in International Relations (IR). The editors and contributors provide concrete examples and case studies of how research on emotions can be carried out in practice. The book provides both a research resource for students, as well as covering diverse methods and methodological approaches.

This book not only demonstrates how primary institutions frame secondary organizations and regimes, but also how secondary institutions construct agencies with capacities that impinge upon and can change primary institutions, providing case studies to illuminate the theory.

While political actors used norms to legitimize their ideas for institutional change, the complex and dynamic nature of these norms also provided the breeding ground for contestation and, sometimes, institutional sclerosis and failure.