Prussians, Nazis and Peaceniks (eBook, ePUB)

Changing images of Germany in International Relations
Redaktion: Steffek, Jens; Holthaus, Leonie

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Produktbeschreibung

Germany looms large in international politics, far larger than its size and population would suggest. From images of Prussian militarism, to the Holocaust, the Nuremberg trials, and the fall of the Berlin Wall, changing perceptions of Germany in the twentieth century not only determined how Germans were seen and treated, but they influenced the concepts that scholars and practitioners used to theorise international relations in the English-speaking world. Today, 'civil power' Germany, an economic giant but a military dwarf, is seen as a puzzling aberration from normal state behaviour. Situated at the intersection of International Relations and international history, Prussians, Nazis and Peaceniks examines external perceptions of Germany and their implications for international theory. At crucial moments in the development of these disciplines, scholars cited Germany in debates on the nature and mechanisms of international politics: liberal internationalists contrasted cooperative foreign policies with an inherently aggressive 'Prussianism,' early realists looked to German revisionism and its fight against the Treaty of Versailles, and in the United States, German émigré scholars translated historical experiences into social-scientific vocabularies. The changing images of Germany in debates in International Relations demonstrate that it is not just the nation-state we often perceive it to be. Rather, Germany continues to be a contestable concept: a political construct that is both contingent and in constant flux.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bonnier Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. März 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526135735
• Artikelnr.: 58801432

Autorenporträt

Jens Steffek is Professor of Transnational Governance at Technische Universität Darmstadt Leonie Holthaus is a Senior Research Fellow at Technische Universität Darmstadt

Inhaltsangabe

Preface - Roland Bleiker 1 Introduction: changing images of Germany - Jens
Steffek and Leonie Holthaus 2 Power as a German problem: a historical
survey - Andreas Osiander 3The liberal internationalist self and the
construction of an undemocratic German other at the beginning of the
twentieth century - Leonie Holthaus 4 From emulation to enmity: the
changing view of Germany in Anglo-American Geopolitics - Lucian M. Ashworth
5 Federalism versus sovereignty: the Weimar Republic in the eyes of
American political science - Paul Petzschmann 6 Germany's fight against
Versailles and the rise of American realism: Edwin Borchard between New
Haven and Berlin - Jens Steffek and Tobias Heinze 7 The tale of the 'two
Germanies': twentieth-century Germany in the debates of Anglo-American
international lawyers and transitional justice experts - Annette Weinke 8
The silent presence: Germany in American postwar International Relations -
Felix Rösch 9 Deutschtum and Americanism: memory and identity in Cold War
America - Brian C. Etheridge 10 'Civilian Power' seen from abroad: the
external image of Germany's foreign policy - Siegfried Schieder 11
Conclusion: International Relations theory and Germany - Richard Ned Lebow
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