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Chapters 3–5 realize a key ambition developed earlier in the book: to assess the 
political impact of affect without assuming in advance its coordination or coher- 
ence. Tracing these effects empirically requires leaving aside familiar expectations 
dictating intentionality as a cornerstone of political agency. Emotions have specific 
properties that change the way human beings act in social and political settings. A 
circulation of affect does more than sustain identities, institutions, and norms; it 
also shifts the basis of legitimacy behind these things by coupling them with new 
sources of symbolic inspiration and performative energy. Following these affective 
dynamics helps us understand some enduring mysteries in global politics—how, 
for example, new political movements emerge, how cultural identities absorb sup- 
port from adjacent social and economic grievances, and how events and memories 
from the past continue to shape interactions in the present. Far from a repetitive af- 
fliction, affect is integral to the way human actors navigate a shifting terrain of so- 
cial interaction. 

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