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International Theory and German Foreign Policy book cover

1st Edition

International Theory and German Foreign Policy

Edited By Jakub Eberle, Alister Miskimmon Copyright 2022
162 Pages
by Routledge

162 Pages
by Routledge

162 Pages
by Routledge
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The central aim of this book is to foster connections between scholarly discussions of German foreign policy and broader theoretical debates in International Relations and beyond. While there has been a lively discussion about ‘new German foreign policy’, this book argues that it has not engaged substantially with international and foreign policy theory, especially with respect to its more recent... Read more

Introduction: International Theory and German Foreign Policy

Jakub Eberle and Alister Miskimmon

1. Germany as a Dividual Actor: Competing Social Logics and their Political Articulations

Jakub Eberle

2. Welche Macht darf es denn sein? Tracing ‘Power’ in German Foreign Policy Discourse

Felix Berenskötter and Holger Stritzel

3. Beyond Culture and Power: The Role of Party Ideologies in German Foreign and Security Policy

Stephanie C. Hofmann

4. Leader of the ‘Free World’? Studying German Foreign Policy by Means of External Attributions

Ulrich Franke

5. The Enduring Culture of Restraint in Modern Germany: German Mentalités on the Use of Force as Portrayed in Contemporary Television Narratives

Michael John Williams

6. Poliheuristic Theory and Germany’s (Non-)Participation in Multinational Military Interventions. The Non-compensatory Principle, Coalition Politics and Political Survival

Klaus Brummer and Kai Oppermann

7. The Challenge of Creating an Adaptive Bundeswehr

Tom Dyson

Conclusion: German Foreign Policy in the (post-)Corona World

Jakub Eberle and Alister Miskimmon

Biography

Jakub Eberle is Research Director at the Institute of International Relations Prague and Lecturer at Prague University of Economics and Business. He works on the role of language, emotions and identity in foreign and security policy. He is the author of Discourse and Affect in Foreign Policy: Germany and the Iraq War (Routledge, 2019), as well as a dozen of articles published in International Political Sociology, Political Geography, Political Psychology, Cooperation and Conflict and elsewhere. The work on this volume was conducted during his stay at Charles University.

Alister Miskimmon is Professor of International Relations and Head of the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics at Queen’s University Belfast, UK. His most recent books include, with Ben O’Loughlin and Jinghan Zeng, One Belt, One Road, One Story? Towards an EU-China Strategic Narrative (2021), and with Ben O’Loughlin and Laura Roselle, Forging the World: Strategic Narratives and International Relations (2017).

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