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How do we explain continuity and change in foreign policy (FP)? What roles do emotions, affect and discourse play in FP decision making? How do we account for contradictions and paradoxes between what state leaders invoke and some of their actions in practice? In what ways can we engage ethically and critically with FP decisions or lack thereof? These are key questions in the study of FP, to which Eberle’s Discourse and Affect in Foreign Policy contributes greatly. Eberle argues that to answer the above questions we need a framework that seriously considers not only the discourse about FP, but also the affective investments certain policies entail, or indeed, the affective aspects in avoiding certain policy choices. Discourse and Affect offers a multi-layered theoretical framework that draws on the discourse analysis tradition of post-structuralism, the Essex School approach to discourse analysis, and Lacanian …