Cultures of Order

Katja Weber is Associate Professor of International Affairs at Georgia Institute of Technology and author of Hierarchy amidst Anarchy: Transaction Costs and Institutional Choice, also published by SUNY Press. Paul A. Kowert is Associate Professor of International Relations at Florida International University. He is the author of Groupthink or Deadlock: When Do Leaders Learn from Their Advisors?, also published by SUNY Press, and the coeditor (with Vendulka Kubálková and Nicholas Onuf) of International Relations in a Constructed World.

• AcknowledgmentsAbbreviations1. IntroductionOrder in International RelationsA German Debate Contributions of ConstructivismOverview of the Book2. Language and the Problem of OrderConstructing OrderTowards a New European OrderConclusion3. The Westpolitik DebateAdenauer and Institutional Constraint Schumacher and National RightsThe Westpolitik DebateConclusion4. The Ostpolitik DebateKiesinger and State RightsBrandt and Institutional ExpansionThe Ostpolitik DebateConclusion5. The Deutschlandpolitik DebateKohl and Institutional Achievement Lafontaine and European RightsThe Deutschlandpolitik Debate Conclusion6. Japan and the Problem of OrderYoshida and the Path from Realism to RightsOrder and the Yoshida DoctrineA Debate ForeclosedConclusion7. ConclusionThe New World Order in GermanyConstructing Order, Constructivist TheoryNotes BibliographyIndex

"This book builds the case that order, not anarchy, should be at the center of our attention in the analysis of world politics. Katja Weber and Paul Kowert offer an argument that is unique in its combination of theoretical sophistication, a full mastery of German foreign policy, and a comparative perspective that travels as far as Japan. Scholars and students who are distressed by the deep divide between international relations and foreign policy analysis will find in this book a central pillar that will make the task of bridge building much easier." — Peter J. Katzenstein, Cornell University