Cultures of Order: Leadership, Language, and Social Reconstruction in Germany and Japan - Couverture souple

Weber, Katja

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0791472124 ISBN 13 : 9780791472125

Editeur : State University of New York Press, 2008

Synopsis

Examines postwar debates within Germany and Japan over how to promote domestic and regional order.

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."

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Katja Weber is Assistant Professor of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Paul A. Kowert is Assistant Professor of International Relations at Florida International University, and coeditor of International Relations in a Constructed World.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: State University of New York Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0791472124
• ISBN 13: 9780791472125
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 218
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• Personne responsable: non disponible