Role theory in international relations

• Titel: Role theory in international relations
• Titelzusatz: approaches and analyses
• Mitwirkende: Harnisch, Sebastian [Hrsg.]
• Verf.angabe: ed. by Sebastian Harnisch ...
• Ausgabe: 1. publ.
• Verlagsort: London [u.a.]
• Verlag: Routledge
• Jahr: 2011
• Umfang: XVIII, 322 S.
• Illustrationen: graph. Darst.
• Format: 24 cm
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Routledge advances in international relations and global politics ; 90
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics Ser.
• ISBN: 978-0-415-61484-9
• Schlagwörter: (s)Internationale Politik / (s)Rollentheorie
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Dokumenttyp: Aufsatzsammlung
• Sprache: eng
• Reproduktion: Druckausg.: Role theory in international relations. - London: Routledge, 2011. - xviii, 322 Seiten
• (Umfang): Online-Ressource
• RVK-Notation: MK 8000
• Sach-SW: Role playing
• Sach-SW: United States
• Sach-SW: United States
• Sach-SW: International relations
• Sach-SW: Electronic books
• K10plus-PPN: 1651924287
• K10plus-PPN:
  Universitätsbibliothek
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Abstract

Role Theory in International Relations provides a comprehensive, up-to-date survey of recent theoretical scholarship on foreign policy roles and extensive empirical analysis of role behaviour of a variety of states in the current era of eroding American hegemony. Taking stock of the evolution of role theory within foreign policy analysis, international relations and social science theory, the authors probe role approaches in combination with IR concepts such as socialization, learning and communicative action. They draw upon comparative case studies of foreign policy roles of states (the United States, Japan, PR China, Germany, France, UK, Poland, Sweden, and Norway) and international institutions (NATO, EU) to assess NATO's transformation, the EU as a normative power as well as the impact of China's rise on U.S. hegemony under the Bush and Obama administrations. The chapters also offer compelling theoretical arguments about the nexus between foreign policy role change and the evolution of the international society. This important new volume advances current role theory scholarship, offering concrete theoretical suggestions of how foreign policy analysis and IR theory could benefit from a closer integration of role theory. It will be of great interest to all scholars and students of international relations, foreign policy and international politics.

Abstract

Front Cover -- Role Theory in International Relations -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Notes on editors -- Notes on contributors -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction: Sebastian Harnisch, Cornelia Frank, and Hanns W . Maull -- Part I: Theories -- 1. Role theory: operationalization of key concepts: Sebastian Harnisch -- 2. Role theory research in international relations: state of the art and blind spots: Marijke Breuning -- 3. "Dialogue and emergence": George Herbert Mead's contribution to role theory and his reconstruction of international politics: Sebastian Harnisch -- 4. Habermas meets role theory: communicative action as role playing?: Harald Müller -- 5. Identity and role change in international politics: Dirk Nabers -- Part II: Roles and institutions -- 6. NATO and the (re)constitution of roles: "self," "we," and "other"?: Trine Flockhart -- 7. Reconsidering the European Union's roles in international relations: self-conceptions, expectations, and performance: Rikard Bengtsson and ole Elgström -- 8. Comparing Germany's and Poland's ESDPs: roles, path dependencies, learning, and socialization: Cornelia Frank -- 9. Does membership matter? Convergence of Sweden's and Norway's role conceptions by interaction with the European Union: Rachel Folz -- Part III: US hegemony -- 10. Hegemony reconstructed? America's role conception and its "leadership" within its core alliances: Hanns W . Maull -- 11. Terrorized America? 9/11 and its impact on US foreign policy: Raimund Wolf -- 12. Discord and collaboration in Franco-American relations: what can role theory tell us?: Ulrich Krotz and James Sperling -- 13. Hesitant adaptation: China's new role in global policies: Jörn- Carsten Gottwald and Niall Duggan -- 14. Conclusion: role theory, role change, and the international social order: Sebastian Harnisch, Cornelia Frank, and Hanns W . Maull.