Cultures of order : leadership, language, and social reconstruction in Germany and Japan / Katja Weber, Paul A. Kowert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weber, Katja.

Contributor:

Kowert, Paul, 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political leadership--Germany--History--20th century.

Political leadership.

Political leadership--Japan--History--20th century.

International relations.

History.

Japan.

Germany.

Physical Description:

xi, 205 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2007]

Summary:

Cultures of Order explores how Germany and Japan each struggled to define an appropriate role for themselves in the postwar international order. In Germany, proponents of institutional constraint fought and generally prevailed over those who stressed national rights. This pattern continued even as Germany achieved unification at the end of the Cold War. In Japan, however, the national rights strategy was more successful, and Japanese leaders have been less willing than their German counterparts to predicate international order on commitment to an emergent institutional framework. In both cases, the choices made by leaders were critical, despite the constraints under which they operated. In this book the authors utilize a constructivist theory of order, emphasizing the distinctive ways language works to normative effect, to explain these debates and how they have contributed to two very different "cultures of order."

Contents:

Introduction

Order in international relations

A German debate

Contributions of constructivism

Overview of the book

Language and the problem of order

Constructing order

Towards a new European order

Conclusion

The Westpolitik debate

Adenauer and institutional constraint

Schumacher and national rights

The Ostpolitik debate

Kiesinger and state rights

Brandt and institutional expansion

The Deutschlandpolitik debate

Kohl and institutional achievement

Lafontaine and German rights

Japan and the problem of order

Yoshida and the path from realism to rights

Order and the Yoshida doctrine

A debate foreclosed

The new world order in Germany

Constructing order, constructivist theory

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-198) and index.

ISBN:

9780791472118

0791472116

OCLC:

80019946