Kai Oppermann

TL;DR: German foreign policy can fruitfully be analysed through the lens of a modified two-level framework which identifies three interdependent drivers behind government decision making: the expectations of Germany's international partners, domestic constraints and the national role conceptions of decision-makers as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this paper, a narrative analysis of German media reporting on Germany's abstention in the United Nations Security Council vote on Resolution 1973 in March 2011 regarding the military intervention in Libya is presented.

TL;DR: This article developed a two-dimensional typology of political reasons for governments to pledge referendums on European integration when they are not obliged to do so, and applied this typology to classify 28 cases of discretionary government commitments to EU referendum pledges.

TL;DR: The authors brought together two cognitive approaches to the analysis of foreign policy: salience and metaphor analysis to identify why certain metaphors resonate better in public discourse than others in the UK public debate about international terrorism and the war on terror.

TL;DR: One of the most conspicuous European policy legacies of the Blair premiership pertains to its public salience: whereas European integration featured as a high-salience issue at the beginning of New Labour's tenure, it was transformed into a low-saliency issue by the end of Tony Blair's period in office.