Germany's grand strategy - historically associated with two world wars and several genocides - is one of the most impactful but difficult phenomena in the history of international relations. Given its geographical, military, and economic limitations, why did the country perceive military might as the most effective means to shape its environment and ensure its security until the mid-twentieth century? Why did its political elites often fail, as in the Weimar Republic, but sometimes succeed...

This book analyses and compares instances of the diffusion of political norms and ideas in the history of Franco-German relations. While this relationship is often described as a history evolving from enmity over reconciliation to friendship, the book uses the concept of diffusion as a complementary analytical perspective to emphasize how political norms and ideas originating in one society have influenced the other, especially in periods of intergovernmental conflict. Established in Inter...

Seminar paper de l’année 2007 dans le domaine Politique - Sujet: Paix et Conflits, Sécurité, note: 14/20 (~1,3), Sciences Po Paris, Dijon, Nancy, Poitier, Menton, Havre, cours: Pensée stratégique, langue: français, résumé: « Ma conviction est que le principe de la dissuasion nucléaire reste valable face à la prolifération, et qu’il commence même à jouer avant l’apparition d’une menace concrète » 1 . Ainsi Jacques Chirac a-t-il caractérisé en 1992 la relation entre la dissuasion et la proli...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Politik - Thema: Völkerrecht und Menschenrechte, Note: 1,0, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg (Institut für Politische Wissenschaft), Veranstaltung: Amerikanische Außenpolitik, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Das amerikanische Verhältnis zum Völkerrecht steht mehr denn je zur Diskussion. Jenseits aller Polemik, die bestimmten US-Regierungen Tendenzen zum "Unilateralismus" nachsagt, kann festgestellt werden, dass sich die amerikanische Sichtwei...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Jura - Europarecht, Völkerrecht, Internationales Privatrecht, Note: 17 P. (~1,1), Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg (Juristische Fakultät), Veranstaltung: Normative Theorien der transnationalen Beziehungen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: „Das Völkerrecht ist keineswegs die Bibel“: dieses Urteil scheint für einen der wichtigsten Völkerrechtler weltweit zunächst überraschend – etwa, als würde ein deutscher Verfassungsjurist die normative Geltun...

Based on the Datawar research program developed by three French academic institutions, this book seeks to explore the following research question: how do social practices of data collection and analysis in quantitative conflict studies influence researchers’ and practitioners’ representations of armed conflict? The editors and authors investigate both scientific practices in the field of quantitative conflict studies and the impact of these practices on practitioners’ vision of war, coveri...

This volume suggests a model of collective memory that distinguishes between two conceptual logics of memory fragmentation: vertical fragmentation and horizontal fragmentation. It offers a series of case studies of conflict and post-conflict collective memory, shedding light on the ways various actors participate in the production, dissemination, and contestation of memory discourses.With attention to the characteristics of both vertical and horizontal memory fragmentation, the boo...

This edited volume is the first to discuss the methodological implications of the ‘emotional turn’ in International Relations. While emotions have become of increasing interest to IR theory, methodological challenges have yet to receive proper attention. Acknowledging the pluralityof ontological positions, concepts and theories about the role of emotions in world politics, this volume presents and discusses various ways to research emotions empirically. Based on concrete research p...