Role Theory in International Relations provides a comprehensive, up-to-date survey of recent theoretical scholarship on foreign policy roles and extensive empirical analysis of role behaviour of a variety of states in the current era of eroding American hegemony. Taking stock of the evolution of role theory within foreign policy analysis, international relations and social science theory, the authors probe role approaches in combination with IR concepts such as socialization, learning and communicative action. They draw upon comparative case studies of foreign policy roles of states (the United States, Japan, PR China, Germany, France, UK, Poland, Sweden, and Norway) and international institutions (NATO, EU) to assess NATO's transformation, the EU as a normative power as well as the impact of China's rise on U.S. hegemony under the Bush and Obama administrations. The chapters also offer compelling theoretical arguments about the nexus between foreign policy role change and the evolution of the international society. This important new volume advances current role theory scholarship, offering concrete theoretical suggestions of how foreign policy analysis and IR theory could benefit from a closer integration of role theory. It will be of great interest to all scholars and students of international relations, foreign policy and international politics.

Role Theory in International Relations provides a comprehensive, up-to-date survey of recent theoretical scholarship on foreign policy roles and extensive empirical analysis of role behaviour of a variety of states in the current era of eroding American hegemony. Taking stock of the evolution of role theory within foreign policy analysis, international relations and social science theory, the authors probe role approaches in combination with IR concepts such as socialization, learning and communicative action. They draw upon comparative case studies of foreign policy roles of states (the United States, Japan, PR China, Germany, France, UK, Poland, Sweden, and Norway) and international institutions (NATO, EU) to assess NATO's transformation, the EU as a normative power as well as the impact of China's rise on U.S. hegemony under the Bush and Obama administrations. The chapters also offer compelling theoretical arguments about the nexus between foreign policy role change and the evolution of the international society. This important new volume advances current role theory scholarship, offering concrete theoretical suggestions of how foreign policy analysis and IR theory could benefit from a closer integration of role theory. It will be of great interest to all scholars and students of international relations, foreign policy and international politics.

Das Standardwerk der internationalen Politik bietet eine systematisch-vergleichende Analyse eines aktuellen Themas: Weltvertragliche Energiesicherheitspolitik. Autorinnen und Autoren sind renommierte deutsche Experten sowie massgebliche Reprasentanten der operativen Politik, des Bundeskanzleramts, des Bundestags und von Bundesministerien. Neben der wechselseitigen Politikberatung leistet das Jahrbuch in Zusammenarbeit mit den Medien und anderen Multiplikatoren auch Offentlichkeitsberatung. "Fur uns ist das Ansporn, unsere energie- und klimapolitischen Anstrengungen weiter zu verstarken, im Innern genauso wie in der EU und auf globaler Ebene. Dass hier noch einiges an Wegstrecke vor uns liegt, zeigen die zahlreichen, hochwertigen Beitrage des vorliegenden Bandes. Ich bin sicher, dass deren Qualitat und thematische Breite die energie- und klimapolitische Debatte in Deutschland bereichern und damit auch der Politik neue Impulse geben werden." (Bundesaussenminister Dr. Frank-Walter Steinmeier)"

Die Beziehungen zwischen Asien und Europa zu charakterisieren, zu verstehen und Vorhersagen bezuglich ihrer kunftigen Entwicklung zu treffen - das ist die Absicht dieses Bandes. Internationale Experten analysieren folgende Themen: Menschenrechte und Demokratie: Brucke oder Mauer in den Beziehungen zwischen Europa und Asien? Die wirtschaftlichen Beziehungen zwischen dem pazifischen Asien und Europa Die sicherheitspolitischen Rahmenbedingungen Europaisch-asiatische Beziehungen"

Aus dem Inhalt: Eine neue internationale Umwelt: Veranderungstendenzen im internationalen System. Hanns W. Maull: Internationale Staatenwelt und internationales System. Reinhard Rode: Weltwirtschaft im Umbruch. Gabriele Brenke: Entwicklung und Unterentwicklung: Was wird aus der dritten Welt? Bassam Tibi: Religioser Fundamentalismus und Aussenpolitik. Regionale Herausforderungen Rudiger Machetzki: Ostasiens Herausforderung. Roland Freudenstein: Die neuen Demokratien in Mittel- und Osteuropa und die Europaische Union. Alexander Rahr: Russland in Europa. Klaus Becher: Ethnische Konflikte auf dem Balkan. Gudrun Kramer: Herausforderungen im Nahen und Mittleren Osten und in Nordafrika. Konfliktfelder. Steffen Angenendt: Migration. Harald Muller: Rustungs- und Zerstorungspotentiale als Herausforderung der internationalen Politik. Hans-Georg Wieck: Transnationale Gefahrdungen der internationalen Sicherheit. Hans-Joachim Schellnhuber/Detlef Sprinz: Umweltgefahrdungen und internationale Sicherheit."

This books surveys the evolution of the international order in the quarter century since the end of the Cold War through the prism of developments in key regional and functional parts of the 'liberal international order 2.0' (LIO 2.0) and the roles played by two key ordering powers, the United States and the People's Republic of China. Among the partial orders analysed in the individual chapters are the regions of Europe, the Middle East and East Asia and the international regimes dealing with international trade, climate change, nuclear weapons, cyber space, and international public health emergencies, such as SARS and ZIKA. To assess developments in these various segments of the LIO 2.0, and to relate them to developments in the two other crucial levels of political order, order within nation-states, and at the global level, the volume develops a comprehensive, integrated framework of analysis that allows systematic comparison of developments across boundaries between segments and different levels of the international order. Using this framework, the book presents a holistic assessment of the trajectory of the international order over the last decades, the rise, decline, and demise of the LIO 2.0, and causes of the dangerous erosion of international order over the last decade.