Dörte Dinger, PhD Fellow
Universität Bremen
Graduate School of Social Sciences
University of Bremen
FVG / Wiener Strasse
Tel.: +49 (0) 421 218- 66 365
Fax: +49 (0) 421 218- 66 353
Room: W 0050
E-mail: ddinger
gsss.uni-bremen.de
Office hours: on appointment.
Dörte Dinger is pursuing a Ph.D. in Social Sciences and is specialising in the field of Global Integration.
Dissertation topic:
From Friends to Collaborators? Analysing Italo-German Bilateral Relations from a Constructivist Perspective (working title).
Abstract:
For quite a long time, Italo-German relations have been treated like a red-headed stepchild. Neither do they matter in research on foreign policy or European politics, nor in domestic circles within both countries. Despite such widespread indifference, however, among observers of Italo-German relations an inspiring debate on the relationship’s actual status and developments has broken out. My dissertation project aims to contribute to this debate and take it one step further. I build on insights of social constructivism in order to propose a three-layer-analysis examining interaction, meaning and identity patterns within bilateral relationships. Applied to the German-Italian empirical case, first results in fact do suggest a change going on at all these three leayers.
Academic Supervisors:
Prof. Dr. Rainer Baumann, BIGSSS, University Bremen
Prof. Dr. Bernhard Zangl, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich
Prof. Dr. Stefano Guzzini, University of Uppsala