Germany as a Dividual Actor: Competing Social Logics and their Political Articulations

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11230%2F21%3A10410522" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11230/21:10410522 - isvavai.cz</a>

Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=5IHPDe7pgA" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=5IHPDe7pgA</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09644008.2019.1620210" target="_blank" >10.1080/09644008.2019.1620210</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Germany as a Dividual Actor: Competing Social Logics and their Political Articulations

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

This article introduces a &apos;dividual actor&apos; approach as a novel way of explaining German foreign policy. It presents its main tenets and demonstrates its relevance - both theoretically and in an illustrative sketch of German arms&apos; exports policy. The article starts from the observation that mainstream approaches, exemplified here by civilian power and geo-economic power, struggle to explain the recurring inconsistencies and tensions in German foreign policy. I argue that this is rooted in problematic assumptions about actorness, which is seen as coherent and unfolding linearly over time. As an alternative, I construct the dividual actor framework and develop it via the concepts of social logics, which capture recurring patterns in foreign policy, and articulation, which grasps the contingent and political moment in decision making. The notion of a dividual actor with multiple identities provides a theoretical explanation for the recurring inconsistencies in Berlin&apos;s actions. It also opens space for novel insights, by bridging the analysis of social patterns with the analysis of how these patterns are reshaped through political decision-making. Lastly, it offers a way of embracing some empirical insights of civilian and geo-economic power by incorporating them into a more open-ended and context-specific framework.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Germany as a Dividual Actor: Competing Social Logics and their Political Articulations

Popis výsledku anglicky

This article introduces a &apos;dividual actor&apos; approach as a novel way of explaining German foreign policy. It presents its main tenets and demonstrates its relevance - both theoretically and in an illustrative sketch of German arms&apos; exports policy. The article starts from the observation that mainstream approaches, exemplified here by civilian power and geo-economic power, struggle to explain the recurring inconsistencies and tensions in German foreign policy. I argue that this is rooted in problematic assumptions about actorness, which is seen as coherent and unfolding linearly over time. As an alternative, I construct the dividual actor framework and develop it via the concepts of social logics, which capture recurring patterns in foreign policy, and articulation, which grasps the contingent and political moment in decision making. The notion of a dividual actor with multiple identities provides a theoretical explanation for the recurring inconsistencies in Berlin&apos;s actions. It also opens space for novel insights, by bridging the analysis of social patterns with the analysis of how these patterns are reshaped through political decision-making. Lastly, it offers a way of embracing some empirical insights of civilian and geo-economic power by incorporating them into a more open-ended and context-specific framework.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

50601 - Political science

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GA16-17670S" target="_blank" >GA16-17670S: Identity a praktiky rozštěpeného aktéra: Interpretace současné německé zahraniční politiky</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Rok uplatnění

2021

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

German Politics

ISSN

0964-4008

e-ISSN

—

Svazek periodika

30

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

17

Strana od-do

14-30

Kód UT WoS článku

000469128500001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85066097334