Professor Ty Solomon

  • Professor of International Relations (Political & International Studies)

telephone: 0141 330 8406
email: Ty.Solomon@glasgow.ac.uk

School of Social & Political Sciences, Adam Smith Building, Bute Gardens, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8RT

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-5504-3305

Research interests

Biography

Ty Solomon is Professor of International Relations at the University of Glasgow.  Before coming to Glasgow, he lectured in international relations at the University of Florida and the University of South Florida.  He also earned his PhD from the University of Florida. He has taught a variety of courses, including American Foreign Policy, Emotions, War & Peace, International Terrorism, International Security, and International Relations Theory.

Much of his research has explored the overlapping influences of language, identity, and emotion in the politics of security and foreign policy. His book, The Politics of Subjectivity in American Foreign Policy Discourses (University of Michigan Press), analyzes how foreign policy narratives emotionally appeal to audiences. In pursuing this question, the book develops a theoretical and empirical account of how some narratives become solidified as political "commonsense" while marginalizing alternative narrative possibilities.  The book applies this framework to the politics of the war on terror and the shifting influences of neoconservatism in debates over US foreign policy.  Other earlier work focused on developing a genealogy of the concept "weapons of mass destruction," discursive processes of securitization in US foreign policy debates, and logics of identity in post-9/11 US foreign policy.  

His current work and interests include conceptualizing international relations through micropolitical and everyday frameworks, emotions and power, the politics of space and place, and the role of time/temporality in politics. He has published in journals such as International Studies Quarterly, European Journal of International Relations, Review of International Studies, Cooperation and Conflict, Millennium, International Studies Review, and New Political Science.

Research Interests

  • International Relations theory
  • American foreign relations
  • Critical security studies
  • Interpretive methods

Research groups

Publications

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Number of items: 29.

2024

Solomon, Ty ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5504-3305 (2024) Collective emotions beyond the state in global politics. In: Ross, Andrew A.G. and Koschut, Simon (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Emotions in International Relations. Oxford University Press. (Accepted for Publication)

2023

Solomon, Ty ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5504-3305 (2023) Up in the air: ritualized atmospheres and the global Black Lives Matter movement. European Journal of International Relations, 29(3), pp. 576-601. (doi: 10.1177/13540661231181989)

Almeida Resende, Erica Simone, Sandrin, Paula and Solomon, Ty ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5504-3305 (2023) Forum: Foreign policy, emotions and ontological security. Contexto Internacional, 45(2), e20220026. (doi: 10.1590/S0102-8529.20234502e20220026)

2022

Beasley, Ryan, Donnelly, Faye, Hom, Andrew R., Kaarbo, Juliet, Neal, Andrew W. and Solomon, Ty ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5504-3305 (Eds.) (2022) STAGES in Security. Contemporary Voices: St Andrews Journal of International Relations. 1(1) [Edited Journal]

Beasley, Ryan, Donnelly, Faye, Hom, Andrew R., Kaarbo, Juliet, Neal, Andrew W. and Solomon, Ty ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5504-3305 (2022) STAGES introduction. Contemporary Voices: St Andrews Journal of International Relations, 1(1), pp. 2-4. (doi: 10.15664/jtr.1698)

2020

Solomon, Ty ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5504-3305 (2020) Status, emotions, and US-Iran nuclear politics. In: Koschut, Simon (ed.) The Power of Emotions in World Politics. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY, pp. 130-148. ISBN 9780367347222 (doi: 10.4324/9780429331220-10)

2019

Solomon, Ty ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5504-3305 (2019) Rhythm and mobilization in international relations. International Studies Quarterly, 63(4), pp. 1001-1013. (doi: 10.1093/isq/sqz074)

Van Rythoven, Eric and Solomon, Ty ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5504-3305 (2019) Encounters between affect and emotion: studying order and disorder in international politics. In: Van Rythoven, Eric and Sucharov, Mira (eds.) Methodology and Emotion in International Relations: Parsing the Passions. Series: Interventions. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY, pp. 133-151. ISBN 9781138335196

2018

Solomon, Ty ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5504-3305 (2018) Ontological security, circulations of affect, and the Arab Spring. Journal of International Relations and Development, 21(4), pp. 934-958. (doi: 10.1057/s41268-017-0089-x)

Solomon, Ty ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5504-3305 (2018) Review Essay: Diplomatic Material: Affect, Assemblage, and Foreign Policy by Jason Dittmer, and The Microbial State: Global Thriving and the Body Politics by Stefanie R. Fishel. Perspectives on Politics, 16(3), pp. 891-893. (doi: 10.1017/S1537592718001561)[Book Review]

2017

Koschut, Simon, Hall, Todd H., Wolf, Reinhard, Solomon, Ty ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5504-3305, Hutchison, Emma and Bleiker, Roland (2017) Discourse and emotions in international relations. International Studies Review, 19(3), pp. 481-508. (doi: 10.1093/isr/vix033)

Solomon, Ty ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5504-3305 and Steele, Brent J. (2017) Micro-moves in international relations theory. European Journal of International Relations, 23(2), pp. 267-291. (doi: 10.1177/1354066116634442)

Solomon, Ty ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5504-3305 (2017) Identity, affective attachments, and US-Iranian nuclear politics. In: Bentley, Michelle and Holland, Jack (eds.) The Obama Doctrine: A Legacy of Continuity in US Foreign Policy. Routledge. ISBN 9781138831223

2016

Solomon, Ty ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5504-3305 (2016) Psychoanalytic theory and textual interpretation. In: Walsh, Sean and Fatovic, Clem (eds.) Interpretation in Political Theory. Routledge, pp. 205-228. ISBN 9781138201651

Solomon, Ty ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5504-3305 (2016) Time and practices in global politics. In: Agathangelou, Anna M. and Killian, Kyle (eds.) Time, Temporality and Violence in International Relations: (De)Fatalizing the Present, Forging Radical Alternatives. Series: Interventions. Routledge: London. ISBN 9780415712712

2015

Solomon, Ty ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5504-3305 (2015) Embodiment, emotions, and materialism in international relations. In: Åhäll, Linda and Gregory, Thomas (eds.) Emotions, Politics, and War. Series: Interventions (4). Routledge: London. ISBN 9781138789050

Oren, Ido and Solomon, Ty ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5504-3305 (2015) WMD, WMD, WMD: securitisation through ritualized incantation of ambiguous phrases. Review of International Studies, 41(2), pp. 313-336. (doi: 10.1017/S0260210514000205)

Solomon, Ty ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5504-3305 (2015) The Politics of Subjectivity in American Foreign Policy Discourses. University of Michigan Press: Ann Arbor, MI. ISBN 9780472119462

2014

Solomon, Ty ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5504-3305 (2014) Time and subjectivity in world politics. International Studies Quarterly, 58(4), pp. 671-681. (doi: 10.1111/isqu.12091)

Solomon, Ty ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5504-3305 (2014) The affective underpinnings of soft power. European Journal of International Relations, 20(3), pp. 720-741. (doi: 10.1177/1354066113503479)

Holland, Jack and Solomon, Ty ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5504-3305 (2014) Affect is what states make of it: articulating everyday experiences of 9/11. Critical Studies on Security, 2(3), pp. 262-267. (doi: 10.1080/21624887.2014.921454)

Solomon, Ty ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5504-3305 (2014) Affective investment in the War on Terror. In: Bently, Michelle and Holland, Jack (eds.) Obama's Foreign Policy: Ending the War on Terror. Series: Routledge Studies in US Foreign Policy. Routledge, pp. 108-123. ISBN 9780415662604

2013

Solomon, Ty ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5504-3305 (2013) Resonances of neoconservatism. Cooperation and Conflict, 48(1), pp. 100-121. (doi: 10.1177/0010836712461622)

Oren, Ido and Solomon, Ty ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5504-3305 (2013) Weapons of mass destruction: the career of a concept. New Political Science, 35(1), pp. 109-135. (doi: 10.1080/07393148.2012.754683)

Solomon, Ty ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5504-3305 (2013) Attachment, tautology, and ontological security. Critical Studies on Security, 1(1), pp. 130-132. (doi: 10.1080/21624887.2013.790228)

2012

Solomon, Ty ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5504-3305 (2012) Human nature and the limits of the self: Hans Morgenthau on love and power. International Studies Review, 14(2), pp. 201-224. (doi: 10.1111/j.1468-2486.2012.01109.x)

Solomon, Ty ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5504-3305 (2012) 'I wasn't angry, because I couldn't believe it was happening': affect and discourse in responses to 9/11. Review of International Studies, 38(4), pp. 907-928. (doi: 10.1017/S0260210511000519)

2009

Solomon, Ty ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5504-3305 (2009) Social logics and normalisation in the war on terror. Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 38(2), pp. 269-294. (doi: 10.1177/0305829809347513)

2006

Solomon, Ty ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5504-3305 (2006) Norms and human rights in international relations. Political Studies Review, 4(1), pp. 36-47. (doi: 10.1111/j.1478-9299.2006.00038.x)

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Articles

Solomon, Ty ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5504-3305 (2023) Up in the air: ritualized atmospheres and the global Black Lives Matter movement. European Journal of International Relations, 29(3), pp. 576-601. (doi: 10.1177/13540661231181989)

Almeida Resende, Erica Simone, Sandrin, Paula and Solomon, Ty ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5504-3305 (2023) Forum: Foreign policy, emotions and ontological security. Contexto Internacional, 45(2), e20220026. (doi: 10.1590/S0102-8529.20234502e20220026)

Beasley, Ryan, Donnelly, Faye, Hom, Andrew R., Kaarbo, Juliet, Neal, Andrew W. and Solomon, Ty ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5504-3305 (2022) STAGES introduction. Contemporary Voices: St Andrews Journal of International Relations, 1(1), pp. 2-4. (doi: 10.15664/jtr.1698)

Solomon, Ty ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5504-3305 (2019) Rhythm and mobilization in international relations. International Studies Quarterly, 63(4), pp. 1001-1013. (doi: 10.1093/isq/sqz074)

Solomon, Ty ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5504-3305 (2018) Ontological security, circulations of affect, and the Arab Spring. Journal of International Relations and Development, 21(4), pp. 934-958. (doi: 10.1057/s41268-017-0089-x)

Koschut, Simon, Hall, Todd H., Wolf, Reinhard, Solomon, Ty ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5504-3305, Hutchison, Emma and Bleiker, Roland (2017) Discourse and emotions in international relations. International Studies Review, 19(3), pp. 481-508. (doi: 10.1093/isr/vix033)

Solomon, Ty ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5504-3305 and Steele, Brent J. (2017) Micro-moves in international relations theory. European Journal of International Relations, 23(2), pp. 267-291. (doi: 10.1177/1354066116634442)

Oren, Ido and Solomon, Ty ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5504-3305 (2015) WMD, WMD, WMD: securitisation through ritualized incantation of ambiguous phrases. Review of International Studies, 41(2), pp. 313-336. (doi: 10.1017/S0260210514000205)

Solomon, Ty ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5504-3305 (2014) Time and subjectivity in world politics. International Studies Quarterly, 58(4), pp. 671-681. (doi: 10.1111/isqu.12091)

Solomon, Ty ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5504-3305 (2014) The affective underpinnings of soft power. European Journal of International Relations, 20(3), pp. 720-741. (doi: 10.1177/1354066113503479)

Holland, Jack and Solomon, Ty ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5504-3305 (2014) Affect is what states make of it: articulating everyday experiences of 9/11. Critical Studies on Security, 2(3), pp. 262-267. (doi: 10.1080/21624887.2014.921454)

Solomon, Ty ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5504-3305 (2013) Resonances of neoconservatism. Cooperation and Conflict, 48(1), pp. 100-121. (doi: 10.1177/0010836712461622)

Oren, Ido and Solomon, Ty ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5504-3305 (2013) Weapons of mass destruction: the career of a concept. New Political Science, 35(1), pp. 109-135. (doi: 10.1080/07393148.2012.754683)

Solomon, Ty ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5504-3305 (2013) Attachment, tautology, and ontological security. Critical Studies on Security, 1(1), pp. 130-132. (doi: 10.1080/21624887.2013.790228)

Solomon, Ty ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5504-3305 (2012) Human nature and the limits of the self: Hans Morgenthau on love and power. International Studies Review, 14(2), pp. 201-224. (doi: 10.1111/j.1468-2486.2012.01109.x)

Solomon, Ty ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5504-3305 (2012) 'I wasn't angry, because I couldn't believe it was happening': affect and discourse in responses to 9/11. Review of International Studies, 38(4), pp. 907-928. (doi: 10.1017/S0260210511000519)

Solomon, Ty ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5504-3305 (2009) Social logics and normalisation in the war on terror. Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 38(2), pp. 269-294. (doi: 10.1177/0305829809347513)

Solomon, Ty ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5504-3305 (2006) Norms and human rights in international relations. Political Studies Review, 4(1), pp. 36-47. (doi: 10.1111/j.1478-9299.2006.00038.x)

Books

Solomon, Ty ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5504-3305 (2015) The Politics of Subjectivity in American Foreign Policy Discourses. University of Michigan Press: Ann Arbor, MI. ISBN 9780472119462

Book Sections

Solomon, Ty ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5504-3305 (2024) Collective emotions beyond the state in global politics. In: Ross, Andrew A.G. and Koschut, Simon (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Emotions in International Relations. Oxford University Press. (Accepted for Publication)

Solomon, Ty ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5504-3305 (2020) Status, emotions, and US-Iran nuclear politics. In: Koschut, Simon (ed.) The Power of Emotions in World Politics. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY, pp. 130-148. ISBN 9780367347222 (doi: 10.4324/9780429331220-10)

Van Rythoven, Eric and Solomon, Ty ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5504-3305 (2019) Encounters between affect and emotion: studying order and disorder in international politics. In: Van Rythoven, Eric and Sucharov, Mira (eds.) Methodology and Emotion in International Relations: Parsing the Passions. Series: Interventions. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY, pp. 133-151. ISBN 9781138335196

Solomon, Ty ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5504-3305 (2017) Identity, affective attachments, and US-Iranian nuclear politics. In: Bentley, Michelle and Holland, Jack (eds.) The Obama Doctrine: A Legacy of Continuity in US Foreign Policy. Routledge. ISBN 9781138831223

Solomon, Ty ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5504-3305 (2016) Psychoanalytic theory and textual interpretation. In: Walsh, Sean and Fatovic, Clem (eds.) Interpretation in Political Theory. Routledge, pp. 205-228. ISBN 9781138201651

Solomon, Ty ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5504-3305 (2016) Time and practices in global politics. In: Agathangelou, Anna M. and Killian, Kyle (eds.) Time, Temporality and Violence in International Relations: (De)Fatalizing the Present, Forging Radical Alternatives. Series: Interventions. Routledge: London. ISBN 9780415712712

Solomon, Ty ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5504-3305 (2015) Embodiment, emotions, and materialism in international relations. In: Åhäll, Linda and Gregory, Thomas (eds.) Emotions, Politics, and War. Series: Interventions (4). Routledge: London. ISBN 9781138789050

Solomon, Ty ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5504-3305 (2014) Affective investment in the War on Terror. In: Bently, Michelle and Holland, Jack (eds.) Obama's Foreign Policy: Ending the War on Terror. Series: Routledge Studies in US Foreign Policy. Routledge, pp. 108-123. ISBN 9780415662604

Book Reviews

Solomon, Ty ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5504-3305 (2018) Review Essay: Diplomatic Material: Affect, Assemblage, and Foreign Policy by Jason Dittmer, and The Microbial State: Global Thriving and the Body Politics by Stefanie R. Fishel. Perspectives on Politics, 16(3), pp. 891-893. (doi: 10.1017/S1537592718001561)[Book Review]

Edited Journals

Beasley, Ryan, Donnelly, Faye, Hom, Andrew R., Kaarbo, Juliet, Neal, Andrew W. and Solomon, Ty ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5504-3305 (Eds.) (2022) STAGES in Security. Contemporary Voices: St Andrews Journal of International Relations. 1(1) [Edited Journal]

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Supervision

I am interested in supervising students in any of my areas of research, including: 

  • International relations theory
  • American foreign policy
  • Critical security studies
  • Emotions in world politics
  • Politics of discourse, narrative, rhetoric
  • Young, Ebony
    Sovereignty, space and materiality: Reconceptualising the sovereign state in a warming climate

Teaching

Undergraduate (Honours) Teaching

  • Introduction to International Relations
  • Issues in International Relations
  • US Foreign Policy
  • Emotions, War, and Peace in International Relations
  • International Relations Concepts          

 Postgraduate Teaching

  • Foreign Policy Analysis

Additional information

Other Roles:

  • Postgraduate Taught Director, School of Social and Political Sciences
  • Politics Honours (undergraduate, 3rd-4th years) coordinator
  • IR Research Cluster Convener
  • Advisor of Studies

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