The Tragedy of Great Power Politics

The American Review of Public Administration

Therefore, the seeker after the truth is not one who studies the writings of the ancients and, following his natural disposition, puts his trust in them, but rather the one who suspects his faith in them and questions what he gathers from them, the one who submits to argument and demonstration, and not to the sayings of a human being whose nature is fraught with all kinds of imperfection and de‹ciency. Thus the duty of the man who investigates the writings of scientists, if learning the truth is his goal, is to make himself the enemy of all that he reads, and, applying his mind to the core and margins of its content, attack it from every side. He should also suspect himself as he performs his critical examination of it, so that he may avoid falling into either prejudice or leniency. (Ibn al-Haytham)1

국제정치이론 = Theory of international politics

American exceptionalism: a double-edged sword

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Victims Of Groupthink A Psychological Study Of Foreign Policy Decisions And Fiascoes

For most of the past century, Germany's attitudes towards and practices of war have deviated from those of other Western countries. After the conduct of war had been pushed to new extremes during the Third Reich, following the Second World War Germans turned into zealous proponents of antimilitarism. Since the late 1980s, the discrepancy between Germany and its Western partners has, however, been shrinking, as Germany has shown a growing readiness to contribute to international military operations. This study examines these changes, paying particular attention to the interplay of public attitudes, political discourse and concrete foreign policy behaviour. Many observers maintain that the development of Germany's foreign policy behaviour on this issue has largely been a response to both (mostly international) structural incentives and (mostly domestic) structural constraints. In contrast, others view it as driven by a deliberate strategy of re-militarisation adopted by a small group of decision-makers. We ...

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Germany and the use of military force: 'total war', the 'culture of restraint', and the quest for normality

Since the end of the Cold War and unification, Germany's policy toward and within the European Union (EU) has undergone significant changes. Once a model “Europeanist,” Germany has become increasingly reluctant to support the progressive implementation of key projects of European integration. Neither an instance of a planned strategic change nor a result of an inevitable adaptation to structural shifts at the systemic level, these changes in German foreign policy, incremental yet significant as they are, evade both deterministic and voluntaristic accounts of foreign policy change. Integrating insights from foreign policy analysis, integration theory, and social theory, the article develops an innovative framework for analysis that is applied to Germany's European asylum and refugee policy as well as its security and defense policy. The origins of both policy fields at the European level can be traced back to initiatives that were supported by or even originated in Germany. However, as the 1990s progressed Germany increasingly obstructed further institutionalization. While in the field of asylum and refugee policy the Amsterdam summit marks a clear turning point in Germany's position, the transformation of German policies on European security and defense proceeded rather as an incremental decrease in material support, aggravating substantive progress in the policy field more broadly. An unanticipated consequence of earlier initiatives, in both cases Germany has found it increasingly difficult to live up to the expectations it has helped to raise.

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De-Europeanization by Default? Germany's EU Policy in Defense and Asylum

Neorealist Foreign Policy Theory

[This is a draft of a chapter that has been published in 2018 by Oxford University Press in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Foreign Policy Analysis edited by Cameron Thies, pp. 266-286. DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.456 The publisher-authenticated version is available online: http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780190463045.001.0001/acref9780190463045-e-456?rskey=oc9ySM&result=70]

Rainer Baumann

Papers

Germany and the use of military force: 'total war', the 'culture of restraint', and the quest for normality

De-Europeanization by Default? Germany's EU Policy in Defense and Asylum

Neorealist Foreign Policy Theory

Non-State Actors and Foreign Policy

Macht und Machtpolitik: Neorealistische Außenpolitiktheorie und Prognosen für die deutsche Außenpolitik nach der Vereinigung