Weber / Kowert Cultures of Order

Leadership, Language, and Social Reconstruction in Germany and Japan
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-7948-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 217 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Examines postwar debates within Germany and Japan over how to promote domestic and regional order.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weber, Katja

Kowert, Paul A.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations

1. Introduction

Order in International Relations
A German Debate Contributions of Constructivism
Overview of the Book

2. Language and the Problem of Order

Constructing Order
Towards a New European Order
Conclusion

3. The Westpolitik Debate

Adenauer and Institutional Constraint Schumacher and National Rights
The Westpolitik Debate
Conclusion

4. The Ostpolitik Debate

Kiesinger and State Rights
Brandt and Institutional Expansion
The Ostpolitik Debate
Conclusion

5. The Deutschlandpolitik Debate

Kohl and Institutional Achievement Lafontaine and European Rights
The Deutschlandpolitik Debate Conclusion

6. Japan and the Problem of Order

Yoshida and the Path from Realism to Rights
Order and the Yoshida Doctrine
A Debate Foreclosed
Conclusion

7. Conclusion

The New World Order in Germany
Constructing Order, Constructivist Theory

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Katja Weber is Associate Professor of International Affairs at Georgia Institute of Technology and author of Hierarchy amidst Anarchy: Transaction Costs and Institutional Choice, also published by SUNY Press. Paul A. Kowert is Associate Professor of International Relations at Florida International University. He is the author of Groupthink or Deadlock: When Do Leaders Learn from Their Advisors?, also published by SUNY Press, and the coeditor (with Vendulka Kubálková and Nicholas Onuf) of International Relations in a Constructed World.