1. Introductory Session (21 February)

No reading required.

2. National Interest, Survival, Self-Help: Germany as a Great Power (28 February)

Mearsheimer, John (1990) “Back to the Future: Instability in Europe after the Cold War”. International Security 15:1, 5-56.

3. Constructing a Brave New World: Germany as a Civilian Power (7 March)

Maull, Hanns (1990) “Germany and Japan: The New Civilian Powers.” Foreign Affairs 69:5, 91–106.

Crawford, Beverly and Kim B. Olsen. 2017. “The Puzzle of Persistence and Power: Explaining Germany’s Normative Foreign Policy.” German Politics 26 (4): 591-608.

4. Growing Up: Germany as a Normal(ised) Power (14 March)

Bulmer, Simon - Paterson, William (2010) “Germany and the European Union: from ‘tamed power’ to normalized power?” International Affairs 86:5, 1051-1073.

Kundnani, Hans (2012) “The Concept of ‘Normality’ in German Foreign Policy since Unification”. German Politics & Society 30:2, 38-58.

5. Power and Leadership: Germany as Europe’s Hegemon (21 March)

Crawford, Beverly (2007) Power and German Foreign Policy: Embedded Hegemony in Europe. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 20-55 (with focus on p. 34-55).

Bulmer, Simon - Paterson, William (2013) “Germany as the EU’s reluctant hegemon? Of economic strength and political constraints.” Journal of European Public Policy 20:10, 1387-1405.

6. Economics über alles: Germany as a Geo-economic Power (28 March)

Kundnani, Hans (2011) “Germany as a Geo-economic Power.” The Washington Quarterly 34: 3, 31-45.

Szabo, Stephen (2017) "Germany: From Civilian Power to a Geo-economic Shaping Power." German Politics and Society 35: 3, 38-54.

7. Petty Politics in a ‘Bigger Switzerland’: Domestication and Erosion (4 April)

Maull, Hanns (2006) “Conclusion: Uncertain Power - German Foreign Policy into the Twenty-First Century”. In Hanns Maull (ed.) Germany’s Uncertain Power Foreign Policy of the Berlin Republic. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 273-286.

Harnisch, Sebastian (2009) “‘The Politics of Domestication’: A New Paradigm in German Foreign Policy”. German Politics 18:4, 455-468.

NO SESSION ON 11 APRIL

8. Remembering and Forgetting: The Politics of Memory in German Foreign Policy (18 April)

Wittlinger, Ruth - Larose, Martin (2007) “No Future for Germany’s Past? Collective Memory and German Foreign Policy.” German Politics 16:4, 481-495.

Zehfuss, Maja (2007) Wounds of Memory: The Politics of War in Germany. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1-31.

9. Apologies and Reconciliation in German Foreign Policy (25 April)

Renner, Judith (2011) “‘I'm sorry for apologising’: Czech and German apologies and their perlocutionary effects.” Review of International Studies 37:4, 1579-1597.

Wittlinger, Ruth (2018) “A ‘model of reconciliation’? Fifty years of German–Israeli relations.” Cooperation and Conflict.

10. Discourse and Identity: (De)Constructing German Foreign Policy (2 May)

Bach, Jonathan (1999) Between Sovereignty and Integration: German Foreign Policy and National Identity after 1989. Hamburg: LIT Verlag, 9-12, 43-63, 147-175.

11. Securing the Self: Ontological Security and German Foreign Policy (9 May)

Berenskoetter, Felix – Giegerich, Bastian (2010) “From NATO to ESDP: A Social Constructivist Analysis of German Strategic Adjustment after the End of the Cold War”. Security Studies 19:3, 407-452.

12. Emotions and Desires in German Foreign Policy (16 May)

Koschut, Simon (2014) “Emotional (security) communities: the significance of emotion norms in inter-allied conflict management.” Review of International Studies 40:3, 533-558.

Eberle, Jakub (2017) “Narrative, Desire, Ontological Security, Transgression: Fantasy as a Factor in International Politics”. Journal of International Relations and Development.