Igor Jovanoski

Bremen International Graduate School of Social Science
University of Bremen
FWG West, Wiener strasse
28334 Bremen
Room: W0050
E-mail:
igorjov@gsss.uni-bremen.de
igorjovanoski@yahoo.com

Igor Jovanoski is pursuing a Ph.D in Social Sciences and specialising in the field of Transnational Relations and Political Theory

Dissertation Topic

A political culture clash? Divergent conceptions of sovereignty and the EU-US relationship.

Abstract

Approaching sovereignty from a social-constructivist perspective this dissertation systematically focuses on its presumed role in the recent Transatlantic crisis. Theoretically, it develops a framework for understanding sovereignty and its translation through Foreign Policy. It also analyses the historical growth of differing sovereignty conceptions as well as their predominance in the national sovereignty narratives of Germany and France and the US. Empirically, focusing on both pre and post 9/11 contexts, it looks to find out how the change in the US foreign policy after 9/11 and the withdrawal from the Rome statute of the ICC were affected by their presumed classical sovereignty attitudes. On the other hand, it also traces how the EU continuity in the support for the court, was also conditioned by its post-national sovereignty images. In sum, placing these sovereignty attitudes in the realm of national political cultures this study seeks to approximate their effect on the processes of Foreign Policy making and behaviour in the recent Transatlantic clash.

Academic supervisors

• Prof. Dr. Rainer Baumann, BIGSSS, University of Bremen
• Prof. Dr. Peter Mayer, BIGSSS, University of Bremen

Empirical areas of interest

• Transatlantic Relations
• EU Integration
• Balkan Politics