Syllabus
PART I: INTRODUCTION
Session One: Germany, the Still “Civilian” Power, and its Troubles
(Wednesday, March 27, 12:30 to 14:00, room 2080)
Required Reading:
Maull, Hanns W. (1990/91): Germany and Japan: The New Civilian Powers, in: Foreign Affairs Vol.69 (5), pp.91-106
Maull, Hanns W. (2018): Reflective, Hegemonic, Geo-economic, Civilian … ? The Puzzle of German Power. In: German Politics 27 (4), S. 460–478. DOI: 10.1080/09644008.2018.1446520.
Supplementary Reading:
Kundnani, Hans: The Paradox of German Power, London: Hurst & Co. 2014
Session Two: “Civilian Power” foundations of German foreign and security policies, pre-1990
(Wednesday, March 27, 14:15 - 15:30, Room 1035)
Required Reading:
Maull, Hanns W. (2014): From 'civilian power' to 'trading state'? in: Colvin, Sarah (ed): Routledge Handbook of German Politics and Culture, Abingdon: Routledge 2014, pp.409-424
Bagger, Thomas (2019): The World According to Germany. Reassessing 1989. In: The Washington Quarterly 41 (4), S. 53–63.
Supplementary Reading:
Knut Kirste/Hanns W. Maull (1996), Zivilmacht und Rollentheorie, in: Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen (ZIB) 3:2, pp.283-312
Holsti, K. J. (1970): National Role Conceptions in the Study of Foreign Policy. In: International Studies Quarterly 14 (3), pp. 233-309 DOI: 10.2307/3013584.
PART II: “CIVILIAN POWER” FOUNDATIONS OF GERMAN FOREIGN AND SECURITY POLICIES, POST-1990
Session Three: Transatlantic relations and national security
(Wednesday, March 27, 15:45 - 17:00, Room 1035)
Required Reading:
Rynning, Sten (2017): The divide. France, Germany and political NATO. In: International affairs 93 (2), S. 267–289
Keller, Patrick (2012): Germany in NATO. The Status Quo Ally. In: Survival 54 (3), S. 95–110
Supplementary Reading:
Overhaus, Marco (2006): Civilian Power under Stress: Germany, NATO, and the European Security and Defense Policy, in: Maull, Hanns W. (ed): Germany’s Uncertain Power, The Foreign Policy of the Berlin Republic, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 66-78
Session Four: European Integration
(Thursday, March 28, 9:30 - 11:00, Room 1034)
Required Reading:
Bulmer, Simon/Paterson, William E. (2019): Germany and the European Union, Europe’s Reluctant Hegemon? London: Macmillan International, pp. 21-77 (Chapters 1 and 2)
Supplementary Reading:
Kundnani, Hans: The Paradox of German Power, London: Hurst & Co. 2014
Session Five: German foreign policies beyond Europe
(Thursday, March 28, 11:00 - 12:30, Room 1034)
Required Reading:
Molt, Peter (2006): Germany’s Development Policy since 1998, in: : Maull, Hanns W. (ed): Germany’s Uncertain Power, The Foreign Policy of the Berlin Republic, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 233-246
Supplementary Reading:
Steinberg, Guido (ed) (Hg.) (2009): German Middle East and North Africa Policy. Interests, Strategies, Options. SWP. Berlin: SWP. Available at https://www.swp-berlin.org/fileadmin/contents/products/research_papers/2009_RP09_sbg_ks.pdf.
Session Six: “Trading state” - Germany in the world economy
(Thursday, March 28, 14:00 - 15:30, Room 1035)
Required Reading:
Hager, Wolfgang (1980): Germany as an Extraordinary Trader, in: Basevi, Giorgio/Kohl, Wilfrid L. (eds) (1980): West Germany: A European and Global Power, Lexington, Mass: Heath, pp. 3-19
Kundnani, Hans (2011): Germany as a Geo-economic power, in: The Washington Quarterly, 34:3 (Summer 2011), pp. 31-45
Supplementary Reading:
Falke, Andreas (2006): German Trade Policy: The Decline of Liberal Leadership, in: Maull, Hanns W. (ed): Germany’s Uncertain Power, The Foreign Policy of the Berlin Republic, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 185-198
PART III: CASE STUDIES
Session Seven: Germany, the United States and NATO
(Monday, May 13, 8:30 to 10:00, room 2018)
Required Reading:
Szabo, Stephen F. (2006): Parting Ways, The German-American Relationship after Iraq, in: Maull, Hanns W. (ed): Germany’s Uncertain Power, The Foreign Policy of the Berlin Republic, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 122-136
Brockmeier, Sarah (2013): Germany and the Intervention in Libya. In: Survival 55 (6), S. 63–90
Glasser, Susan B.: An Ocean Apart. Trump's beef with Angela Merkel and Europe. In: The New Yorker (Dec. 24 & 31, 2018), S. 46–53.
Supplementary Reading:
Szabo, Stephen F. (2004): Parting Ways, The Crisis in German-American Relations, Washington, DC: Brookings
Miskimmon, Alister (2012): German Foreign Policy and the Libya Crisis. In: German Politics 21 (4), S. 392–410
Szabo, Stephen F. (2007): Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, Politische und Sicherheitsbeziehungen, in: Risse, Thomas et al. (ed): Handbuch zur deutschen Außenpolitik, Wiesbaden: VS 2007, pp. 353-366
Session Eight: Germany in the Eurocrisis
(Monday, May 13, 10:00 to 11:15, room 2018)
Required Reading:
Bulmer, Simon/Paterson, William E. (2019): Germany and the European Union, Europe’s Reluctant Hegemon? London: Macmillan International, pp. 167-97 (Chapter 6)
Oppermann, Kai (2012): National Role Conceptions, Domestic Constraints and the New ‘Normalcy’ in German Foreign Policy. The Eurozone Crisis, Libya and Beyond. In: German Politics 21 (4), S. 502–519
Supplementary Reading:
Otero-Iglesias, Miguel (2017): Still waiting for Paris. Germany's reluctant hegemony in pursuing political union in the Euro Area. In: 39 (April 2017) 3 39 (3), S. 349–364
Bulmer, Simon; Paterson, William E. (2013): Germany as the EU's reluctant hegemon? Of economic strength and political constraints. In: Journal of European Public Policy 20 (10), S. 1387–1405
Session Nine: Germany, Europe and Migration
(Monday, May 13, 11:15 to 12:30, room 2018)
Required Reading:
Webber, Douglas (2019): European Disintegration? The Politics of Crisis in the European Union, London: Macmillan International, pp. 135-176 (Chapter 5)
Supplementary Reading:
Hellmann, Gunther/Baumann, Rainer/Wagner, Wolfgang (2006): Germany’s EU Policy on Asylum and Defence, De-Europeanization by Default? Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
Alexander, Robin (2017): Die Getriebenen, Merkel und die Flüchtlingspolitik: Report aus dem Inneren der Macht, Munich: Siedler
Session Ten: Germany and the Crisis of the European Order post-2014
(Tuesday, May 14, 8:30 to 10:00, room 4018)
Required Reading:
Kundnani, Hans: Leaving the West Behind, in: Foreign Affairs (Jan./Feb 2015), pp. 108-116
Pond, Elizabeth: Germany’s real Role in the Ukraine Crisis, Caught Between East and West, in: Foreign Affairs (March/April 2015), pp. 173-177
Webber, Douglas (2019): European Disintegration? The Politics of Crisis in the European Union, London: Macmillan International, pp. 106-134 (Chapter 4)
Supplementary Reading:
Samuel Charap/Timothy J. Colton (2017): Everyone Loses, The Ukraine Crisis and the Ruinous Contest for Post-Soviet Eurasia,London: IISS/Routledge
Session Eleven: The Franco-German Tandem
(Tuesday, May 14, 10:15 to 11:30, room 4018)
Required Reading:
Schild, Joachim (2011): Mission impossible? The Potential for Franco-German Leadership in the Enlarged EU. In: Journal of Common Market Studies, 48 (2010) 5, S. 1367-1390
Stark, Hans: The Franco-German relationship, 1998 – 2005, in: Maull, Hanns W. (ed): Germany’s Uncertain Power, The Foreign Policy of the Berlin Republic, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 109-121
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Annotation
This seminar offers the opportunity to analyse and evaluate German foreign policy on the basis of recent case studies. Based on the conceptual foundations of role theory as an analytical tool from Comparative Foreign Policy Analysis, and specifically the ideal-type civilian power role concept, the seminar will explore the overall development of German foreign and security policy since 1990 and several case studies, notably the wars in Bosnia and Kosovo (1992-1999), the Iraq war (2002/2003), the Libya intervention (2011) and the Ukraine crisis (2014).
Participants are expected to take up one of the cases and prepare a 20-min presentation and develop this into a 15-page term paper.