ABSTRACT
The politics of emotions has been theorized in a post-political context as politics of conduct, or ethopolitics, in political science also understood as the GAL-TAN scale. The political science of emotions is an expanding field and fills a gap that too long was left by rational choice abstractions and overemphasizing of a politics of interest. Although the rules for international relations have changed after the Second World War and decolonization, the idea of detachment and repression of emotions lingers, for instance, in criminal and police law, where criminal activity can be understood as lack of civilization, or even de-civilization. Law and emotions is not only a way to come to terms with influences that shape law and adjudication, the causal direction also goes the other way around: Law produces emotions through a number of social mechanisms. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters.
