In this paper I progress an emotional geography of diplomacy by considering emotions as part of calculative action on the part of diplomats. I seek to move the spotlight away from what emotion is to what emotion, as an embodied sociality, seeks to do to the alteration or reproduction of geopolitical relations. This unique focus on the calculative dimensions of emotional usage in diplomacy is a central though unexplored dimension of emotional geopolitics and one that I consider supports a perspective in which emotions are not depoliticised or trivialised, but situated, historicised, and relational, and which may be mobilised for political purposes. Focusing on the socio‐spatiality of calculative emotions, and building on recent scholarly interest in the mobilisation and manipulation of emotions, I explore their use in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), a poignant and powerful context for the study of emotional diplomacies. Using empirically rich materials derived from interviews with Security Council delegations, the paper's aims are threefold. First, I explore the different ways in which emotions are perceived, performed, interpreted, and acted on by diplomats in this international, inter‐cultural geopolitical body. Second, from a geographical perspective I investigate the ways in which embodied emotions are distinctively connected to specific sites and spaces, and demonstrate the complexities of their usage in the UNSC. Finally, using a case study of Russian–UK emotional exchanges in the UNSC over the civil war and humanitarian crisis in Syria, I show that research on emotional diplomacies must be sensitive to the specific social and cultural assumptions over what particular emotions mean and do in altering and reproducing geopolitical relations.

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迈向感情上的外交地理：联合国安全理事会的见解

在本文中，我通过将情感视为外交官的计算性行为的一部分来发展外交情感的地理学。我试图移动聚光灯从什么情感是什么感情了，作为一个社会性的体现，即寻求做改变或再现地缘政治关系。这种对外交中情感使用的计算维度的独特关注是情感地缘政治的一个核心但尚未探索的维度，我认为这支持一种观点，在这种观点中，情感没有被非政治化或琐碎化，而是处在，历史化和关系化的，并且可能是为政治目的而动员。着重于计算情感的社会空间性，并基于最近学者对情感动员和操纵的兴趣，我探索了它们在联合国安全理事会（UNSC）中的使用，这是研究情感外交的令人生畏而强大的背景。使用从对安全理事会代表团的采访中获得的经验丰富的材料，本文的目的是三重的。第一，我探索了外交官在这个国际性，跨文化的地缘政治机构中感知，执行，解释和采取情感的不同方式。其次，从地理角度出发，我研究了将体现的情感独特地连接到特定场所和空间的方式，并论证了在联合国安理会中使用情感的复杂性。最后，通过使用联合国安理会关于内战和叙利亚人道主义危机的俄英情感交流的案例研究，我表明，对情感外交的研究必须对特定情感的含义和作用对特定的社会和文化假设敏感。改变和再现地缘政治关系。从地理角度，我研究了将体现的情感独特地连接到特定地点和空间的方式，并论证了在联合国安理会中使用情感的复杂性。最后，通过使用联合国安理会关于内战和叙利亚人道主义危机的俄英情感交流的案例研究，我表明，对情感外交的研究必须对特定情感的含义和作用对特定的社会和文化假设敏感。改变和再现地缘政治关系。从地理角度，我研究了将体现的情感独特地连接到特定地点和空间的方式，并论证了在联合国安理会中使用情感的复杂性。最后，通过使用联合国安理会关于内战和叙利亚人道主义危机的俄英情感交流的案例研究，我表明，对情感外交的研究必须对特定情感的含义和作用对特定的社会和文化假设敏感。改变和再现地缘政治关系。