Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/84549 
Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
DIIS Working Paper No. 2003:23
Publisher: 
Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), Copenhagen
Abstract: 
This paper sketches the very first research hypotheses and methodological framework for exploring the puzzle why at the peaceful end of the Cold War, more militarist versions of realism and decidedly geopolitical thought have known a comeback in different European countries while not in others. It proposes a constructivism-inspired analysis which, in a sequence, explores geopolitics as an intellectual tradition, an expression of state interests, and of identity politics. It proposes to analyse the actual revival (and/or the lack of) via a sociological process-tracing inspired by already existing institutionalist approaches yet embedded in an application of Bourdieu’s field theory to ‘foreign policy’. Needless to say that the most important part needs still to be done, both on the methodological level (the concrete framework) and on the comparative empirical analysis which necessarily asks for a collaborative teamwork.
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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