ABSTRACT

Although German Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher were on the same side in the Cold War, as well as in the same family of moderate centre-right parties, despite being roughly the same age and sharing a fundamental market-economic and Atlanticist orientation, they were not in harmony emotionally. This analysis demonstrates how different genders, incompatible conceptions of nation, history, and regional origins, as well as experiences of mutual frustration eclipsed their ideological commonalities and counteracted against the ‘emotional regimes’ of ‘the West’ in the Cold War. It breaks new ground in several respects. First, it does not examine strong feelings that blotted out all others but rather a range of more ambivalent and nuanced emotions. Second, it links the themes of gender and feeling by enquiring about the male or female manifestations and attributions of certain emotions. Third, it focuses on not only men and women at the top but considers their entourages as either amplifiers or ‘shock absorbers’ of the leaders’ feelings. Finally, it explores the scope and limits of the notion that the Cold War was an ‘emotional regime’.

摘要

尽管德国联邦总理赫尔穆特·科尔和英国首相玛格丽特·撒切尔在冷战中站在同一边，也属于温和的中右翼政党，尽管他们的年龄大致相同，并且有着共同的基本市场经济和大西洋主义者的取向，他们在情感上并不和谐。这一分析表明，不同的性别、对国家、历史和地区起源的不相容概念，以及相互挫败的经历如何使他们的意识形态共性黯然失色，并与冷战中“西方”的“情感政权”相抵触。它在几个方面开辟了新天地。首先，它不检查掩盖所有其他情绪的强烈情绪，而是检查一系列更加矛盾和细微的情绪。第二，它通过询问某些情绪的男性或女性表现和归因，将性别和感觉的主题联系起来。第三，它不仅关注高层的男性和女性，而且将他们的随行人员视为领导者感情的放大器或“减震器”。最后，它探讨了冷战是一种“情感政权”这一概念的范围和局限性。