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Flying Tiger - International Relations Theory and the Politics of Advanced Weapons (Hardcover)
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Flying Tiger - International Relations Theory and the Politics of Advanced Weapons (Hardcover)
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Ulrich Krotz's Flying Tiger takes a relatively obscure episode-the
joint Franco-German production of a state-of-the-art and very
expensive military helicopter, the Tiger Helicopter (used in the
James Bond film Goldeneye, incidentally)-to make a groundbreaking
theoretical contribution to international relations scholarship.
The rivalry between Germany and France in the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries is of course well known. It was directly or
indirectly responsible for four cataclysmic wars, and until
relatively recently, the idea that these two states could become
close partners seemed implausible. Yet following World War II and
the birth of the European Union, they became the closest of allies.
In fact, they collaborated for three decades on the most
sophisticated weapon that the EU has produced: the Tiger. How did
this occur, and what does this happy albeit unforeseen outcome tell
us about how interstate relations really work? Through the lens of
the Tiger, Krotz draws from two theoretical approaches-social
constructivism and historical institutionalism-to reframe our
understanding of how international relationships evolve.
International relations scholars have always focused on relations
between states, yet have failed to think in any sustained way about
how interstate relationships both remold domestic realities and
derive from them. How does a relationship between states impact
upon a state internally? And how do the internal institutional
dynamics of a state limit such relationships? While International
Relations scholars have touched on these issues, until now no one
has provided a sustained, finely grained, and historically informed
analysis that explains how international relations socially
constructs domestic realities and how in turn domestic politics and
institutions structure interstate relationships. Krotz's account of
how the Tiger project was funded and how the device was built
perfectly illustrates his theoretical claims about the dialectical
relationship of 'high' interstate politics and 'low' domestic
politics. Two famous rivals completely reshaped their relationship
through a complicated, decades-long process in which the nuts and
bolts of domestic politics-approvals for state funding as well as
laws regarding corporations and technology transfer, for
instance-were instrumental in creating a new reality.
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