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Gunther Hellmann - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Theorizing Foreign Policy in a Globalized World - Theorizing Foreign Policy in a globalized world
2015Co-Authors: Gunther Hellmann, Knud Erik JørgensenAbstract:1. Introduction 2. Linking Foreign Policy and Systemic Transformation in Global Politics: Methodized Inquiry in a Deweyan Tradition Gunther Hellmann 3. Foreign Policy in an Age of Globalization Iver B. Neumann 4. Analysing Foreign Policy in an Era of Global Governance Simon Schunz and Stephan Keukeleire 5. Actorhood in World Politics: The Dialects of Agency/Structure within the World Polity Mathias Albert and Stephan Stetter 6. Do We Need Fewer Than 195 Theories of Foreign Policy? Benjamin Herborth 7. 'Identity' in International Relations and Foreign Policy Theory Ursula Stark Urrestarazu 8. Foreign Policy Feedbacks: A Cybernetic Model at the Interface of Foreign Policy Analysis and International Relations Frank Gadinger and Dirk Peters 9. Beliefs and Loyalties in World Politics: A Pragmatist Framework of Analysis Ulrich Roos 10. Foreign Policy as Ethics: Towards a Re-Evaluation of Values Dan Bulley 11. First in Freedom: American Martial Liberal Exceptionalism in International Context Daniel Deudney and Sunil Vaswani
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Fatal attraction? German Foreign Policy and IR/Foreign Policy theory
Journal of International Relations and Development, 2009Co-Authors: Gunther HellmannAbstract:After unification in 1990, German Foreign Policy has received unprecedented attention from the most prominent journals of International Relations (IR) theory. This paper argues that this was due largely to the function which the German ‘case’ served in the discourse of IR/Foreign Policy theory. Realists as well as liberals and constructivists were heavily enticed by it since it seemed an excellent case for all of them to prove the worth of their theories. In doing so, however, the subsumtionist logic applied did not only foster identical exclusionist theoretical claims. It also cultivated a systematicity view of thought and action which was wholly unreceptive for potentially novel Foreign Policy practices to appear. The paper documents and critiques these trends as a typical phenomenon of a paradigmatic discipline. It then outlines an alternative pragmatist approach to Foreign Policy analysis which emphasizes the contingency and situated creativity of social action. It is argued, in particular, that this approach provides for a more adequate description of the changes which German Foreign Policy has undergone. Moreover, by drawing on the insights of allegedly incommensurable paradigms and by systematically integrating the inherent contingency of social action, it also shows how a logic of reconstruction can open up avenues for cross-paradigmatic dialogue.
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IR/Foreign Policy theory and German Foreign Policy
2009Co-Authors: Gunther HellmannAbstract:Sociological analyses of the discipline of International Relations (IR) have convincingly shown that IR is ‘a two-tiered discipline’ (Waever 2007: 297). Citations indices and disciplinary surveys (Jordan et al., 2009) have indicated again and again that the top of the disciplinary hierarchy is occupied by those scholars who are known for doing ‘theory’ — ‘grand’ theory (i.e., ‘systemic’ or ‘structural’ theory) at that. By most understandings of ‘theory’ — whether it is conceived of as ‘explanatory’, ‘critical’, ‘constitutive’, ‘normative’ or ‘as a lens through which we look at the world’ (Kurki and Wight 2007: 27) — Foreign Policy in general and the Foreign Policy of individual countries in particular is usually not tackled with the standard ‘theoretical’ tools cherished in the discipline. It is probably no coincidence that the (second-tier) subdiscipline dealing with Foreign Policy issues is usually called ‘Foreign Policy analysis’ (FPA) or ‘comparative Foreign Policy’ (CFP) rather than ‘Foreign Policy theory’. For many scholars in the field of Foreign Policy, this amounts to an implicit acknowledgement that their subfield is theoretically weak, especially when measured against the essentially unavoidable yardstick of (first-tier) ‘IR theory’. The term ‘theory’, for instance, is used more than 80 times in the lead article by Valerie Hudson (Hudson 2005) launching Foreign Policy Analysis, the first (and indisputably leading) IR journal exclusively devoted to the theoretical analysis of Foreign Policy. Yet, the journal itself (for which the article by Hudson formed something like a ‘mission statement’) is not called what it obviously is supposed to publish, i.e., ‘Foreign Policy theory’. In Hudson’s case, the hesitation to speak of Foreign Policy theory (she uses the term ‘FPA theory’) probably has to do with her explicit ‘actor-specific focus, based upon the argument that all that occurs between nations and across nations is grounded in human decision makers acting singly or in groups’ (Hudson 2005: 1). If ‘only human beings can be true agents’ and if ‘their agency’ is said to be ‘the source of all international politics and all change
Karen E. Smith - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Emotions and EU Foreign Policy
International Affairs, 2021Co-Authors: Karen E. SmithAbstract:Abstract This article assesses the role that emotions play in European Union Foreign Policy-making. EU decision-making has often been depicted as technocratic and ‘de-dramatized’, yet there are still situations in which emotions can affect the process and outcomes of Foreign Policy decision-making. Using examples of the EU's responses to crises in Ukraine and Myanmar, the article illustrates that emotions can motivate the taking of particular decisions at particular times. Further, the EU expresses emotions in its Foreign Policy communications, although its use of emotional diplomacy may not be accompanied by substantive action appropriate to the emotions expressed, thus revealing the existence of an emotions–action gap. The ‘emotional turn’ in Foreign Policy analysis can open up new directions for research in EU Foreign Policy, and the conclusion considers other promising avenues for researching emotions and EU Foreign Policy.
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Ethics and Foreign Policy - Ethics and Foreign Policy
2001Co-Authors: Karen E. Smith, Margot LightAbstract:Introduction Karen E. Smith and Margot Light Part I. Theories: 1. Ethics, interests and Foreign Policy Chris Brown 2. The ethics of humanitarian intervention: protecting civilians to make democratic citizenship possible Mervyn Frost 3. A pragmatic perspective on ethical Foreign Policy Molly Cochran Part II. Instruments and Policies: 4. Exporting democracy Margot Light 5. Ethical Foreign policies and human rights: dilemmas for non-governmental organisations Margo Picken 6. The international criminal court Spyros Economides 7. Constructing an ethical Foreign Policy: analysis and practice from below Karin Fierke Part III. Case Studies: 8. The United States and the ethics of post-modern war Christopher Coker 9. Blair's Britain: a force for good in the world? Tim Dunne and Nicholas Wheeler 10. The EU, human rights and relations with third countries: 'Foreign Policy' with an ethical dimension? Karen E. Smith.
Ben Tonra - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Rethinking European Union Foreign Policy - Rethinking European Union Foreign Policy
2004Co-Authors: Ben Tonra, Thomas ChristiansenAbstract:Preface 1: The study of EU Foreign Policy: Between international relations and European studies - Thomas Christiansen and Ben Tonra 2: Theorising the European Union's Foreign Policy - Knud Erik Jorgensen 3: International Relations or European integration: Is the CFSP sui generis? - Jakob C. Ohrgaard 4: Foreign Policy analysis and European Foreign Policy - Brian White 5: Discourse analysis in the study of European Foreign Policy - Henrik Larsen 6: Role-identity and the Europeanisation of Foreign Policy: A political-cultural approach - Lisbeth Aggestam 7: Interests, institutions and identities in the study of european Foreign Policy - Adrian Hyde-Price 8: Theory and practice of multi-level Foreign Policy: European Union's Policy in the field of arms export controls - Sibylle Bauer and Eric Remacle 9: Justifying EU Foreign Policy: The logics underpinning EU enlargement - Helen Sjursen and Karen E. Smith
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The Europeanisation of National Foreign Policy: Dutch, Danish and Irish Foreign Policy in the European Union
2001Co-Authors: Ben TonraAbstract:Analysing European Foreign and security Policy conceptual frameworks Dutch Foreign Policy - 1945-1970 Danish Foreign Policy - 1945-1973 Irish Foreign Policy - 1945-1973 the Foreign policies of the Netherlands, Denmark and Ireland the Netherlands, Denmark and Ireland and Foreign Policy co-operation European Foreign and security Policy in the Middle East European and Foreign security Policy and South Africa European Foreign and security Policy in Yugoslavia/Bosnia the practitioners' assessment.
Thomas Christiansen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Rethinking European Union Foreign Policy - Rethinking European Union Foreign Policy
2004Co-Authors: Ben Tonra, Thomas ChristiansenAbstract:Preface 1: The study of EU Foreign Policy: Between international relations and European studies - Thomas Christiansen and Ben Tonra 2: Theorising the European Union's Foreign Policy - Knud Erik Jorgensen 3: International Relations or European integration: Is the CFSP sui generis? - Jakob C. Ohrgaard 4: Foreign Policy analysis and European Foreign Policy - Brian White 5: Discourse analysis in the study of European Foreign Policy - Henrik Larsen 6: Role-identity and the Europeanisation of Foreign Policy: A political-cultural approach - Lisbeth Aggestam 7: Interests, institutions and identities in the study of european Foreign Policy - Adrian Hyde-Price 8: Theory and practice of multi-level Foreign Policy: European Union's Policy in the field of arms export controls - Sibylle Bauer and Eric Remacle 9: Justifying EU Foreign Policy: The logics underpinning EU enlargement - Helen Sjursen and Karen E. Smith
Klaus Brummer - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Foreign Policy Analysis and the study of Indian Foreign Policy: a pathway for theoretical innovation?
India Review, 2019Co-Authors: Chris Alden, Klaus BrummerAbstract:ABSTRACTThis article proposes that the study of Indian Foreign Policy and Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA) offers a “win-win situation” for scholarship. On the one hand, this bridge-building exercise ...
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introduction: coalition politics and Foreign Policy
European Political Science, 2017Co-Authors: Kai Oppermann, Juliet Kaarbo, Klaus BrummerAbstract:Multi-party coalitions are an increasingly common type of government across different political regimes and world regions. Since they are the locus of national Foreign-Policy-making, the dynamics of coalition government have significant implications for International Relations. Despite this growing significance, the Foreign-Policy-making of coalition governments is only partly understood. This symposium advances the study of coalition Foreign Policy in three closely related ways. First, it brings together in one place the state of the art in research on coalition Foreign Policy. Second, the symposium pushes the boundaries of our knowledge on four dimensions that are key to a comprehensive research agenda on coalition Foreign Policy: the Foreign-Policy outputs of multi-party coalitions; the process of Foreign-Policy-making in different types of coalitions; coalition Foreign Policy in the ‘Global South’; and coalition dynamics in non-democratic settings. Finally, the symposium puts forward promising avenues for further research by emphasising, for instance, the value of theory-guided comparative research that employs multi-method strategies and transcends the space of Western European parliamentary democracies.
