licy decision-making process. The case studies are; (1) Emotions and their significant role in decision-making during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, and (2) Emotions in the decision-making during the Israel-Lebanon war in 2006. I will then conclude with the reiteration of my argument that emotion should be considered as a significant factor in foreign policy decision-making.
It should also be noted that in this paper, I have placed two important restrictions on its content and scope. Firstly, the current study focus on negative emotions (i.e. fear, hate, anger, embarrassment, and revenge) and potentially conflictual foreign policy choices. This does not suggest that other emotions do not impact the international decision-making process, nor only negative emotions are a significant factor in foreign policy decisions. Secondly, this paper aims to showcase the different emotions that played out during foreign policy decision-making, but it does not conclude that emotions are the sole factors in decision making. It would be unwise to say so. Decision-making is both a cognitive and rational process, and in almost all cases, both sets of theories are equally evident.

TWO TYPES OF EMOTIONS: INCIDENTAL AND INTEGRAL
Decision-making is a complicated process. There are several factors at play and contributes to the final decision. Apart from the rational thinking and choices at hand that the decision maker would consider in the decision-making, I will argue in this essay that emotions also significantly contribute to the decision making. Once these are established, I will showcase the play of emotions in foreign policy decision-making using two case studies in the next section. In this essay, I will focus on two types of emotions; incidental and integral emotions.

Incidental Emotions
Incidental emotions are the past experiences and emotions that travel with us to the decision-making table (Bodenhausen, 1993, Lerner & Keltner 2000, Loewen...