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Kowert, Paul. and Weber, Katja. "Post-Cold War German Foreign Policy: Kant, Locke, or Hobbes?" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Le Centre Sheraton Hotel, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Mar 17, 2004 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p72656_index.html>

Kowert, P. A. and Weber, K. , 2004-03-17 "Post-Cold War German Foreign Policy: Kant, Locke, or Hobbes?" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Le Centre Sheraton Hotel, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p72656_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: That German foreign policy was constrained by Cold War bipolarity never precluded vigorous debate among German policy makers about the requirements of domestic and European political order. Party politics also contributed to such disputes, but an emergent pattern in the debates over East-West relations and unification is better explained by a constructivist approach that links public order to the way language functions to create rules (and thus rule). This perspective accords an independent role to ideas and to policymakers as political agents, but it also explores constraints on what it was possible to say, and to think, in postwar Germany. In previous rounds of debate, exponents of a Kantian institutional approach to order squared off against Lockeans who emphasized rights and agency. In general, the Kantians (Adenauer, Brandt, and Kohl) prevailed over the Lockeans (Schumacher, Kiesinger, and Lafontaine), resulting in a Germany that built institutions first and asked questions about national rights later. But, can this pattern be expected to continue in the post-Cold War era, or should we prepare ourselves for a reassertion of a Hobbesian world view (characterized by coercion, the issuance of directives, and demands for compliance)?

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