Prof. Dr. Rainer Baumann - Completed Projects in Foreign Policy Analysis
Multilateralism in German Foreign Policy since Unification (dissertation project, 2001-2005)
Description:
Germany's readiness to cooperate with its partners in the framework of multilateral institutions is often seen as a core element of continuity in German foreign policy for the last decades and beyond German unification. The most prominent theoretical explanation for this alleged continuity is the notion that an established political culture and a stable Europeanized German identity have prevented any reversion back to power politics and unilateralism.
This project questions these contentions both theoretically and empirically. In theoretical terms, it contrasts the idea of a stable identity or culture with the concept of a continuous and mutual discursive reproduction and reconfiguration of culture and foreign policy. Thus, culture and identity are more open to gradual change than most of the existing literature applying these concepts to German foreign policy would allow for. In empirical terms, the study shows that while Germany has kept its preference for multilateral cooperation, German multilateralism itself has gradually but substantially changed in the 1990s by becoming much less principled and more instrumental than it was in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Thus, the traditions of the "Bonn Republic" have not been abandoned, but they are more fragile than is usually perceived.
Publications:
Rainer Baumann 2007: Multilateralismus. Die Wandlungen eines vermeintlichen Kontinutitätselements der deutschen Außenpolitik, in: Thomas Jäger/Alexander Höse/Kai Oppermann (eds.), Deutsche Außenpolitik, Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag, 442-461.
Rainer Baumann 2006: Der Wandel des deutschen Multilateralismus. Eine diskursanalytische Untersuchung deutscher Außenpolitik, Schriftenreihe Internationale Beziehungen, Band 4, Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag.
Rainer Baumann 2005: Der Wandel des deutschen Multilateralismus. Verschiebungen im außenpolitischen Diskurs in den 1990er Jahren, in: Cornelia Ulbert/Christoph Weller (eds.), Konstruktivistische Analysen der internationalen Politik, Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag, 99-125.
Rainer Baumann 2002: The Transformation of German Multilateralism. Changes in the Foreign Policy Discourse since Unification, in: German Politics and Society 20: 4, 1-26.
Germany's Changing European Policy (contribution to DFG-funded project, headed by Gunther Hellmann, 2002-2005)
Description:
Since the end of the Cold War and unification, Germany's policy toward and within the European Union has undergone significant changes. Once a model "Europeanist", Germany has become increasingly reluctant to support the progressive implementation of key projects of European integration. This project integrates insights from foreign policy analysis, integration theory and social theory to provide an innovative framework for analysis that can account for incremental change in Germany's EU policy.
Publications*:
Wolfgang Wagner/Rainer Baumann/Monika Bösche/Gunther Hellmann 2006: German Foreign Policy in Europe. An Interactionist Framework of Analysis, in: Gunther Hellmann (ed.), Germany and European Integration. New Perspectives in German Studies Series, Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 1-28.
Gunther Hellmann/Rainer Baumann/Monika Bösche/Benjamin Herborth/Wolfgang Wagner 2005: De-Europeanization by Default? Germany's EU Policy in Defense and Asylum, in: Foreign Policy Analysis 1: 1, 143-164.
German Foreign Policy: An Introduction (contribution to text book project of Gunther Hellmann, 2001-2006)
Description:
The goal of this undertaking was to produce an introductory-level text book to familiarize students with theories and methods of foreign policy analysis, their application to the case of Germany as well as some basic empirical knowledge of German foreign policy.
Publication*:
Three chapters in Gunther Hellmann, in cooperation with Rainer Baumann and Wolfgang Wagner 2006: Deutsche Außenpolitik. Eine Einführung, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.
German Foreign Policy since Unification (contribution to DFG-funded project, headed by Volker Rittberger, 1997-2000)
Description:
The project examines the causes of continuity and change in German foreign policy since unification. It has three aims. The first is to develop theories of foreign policy, grounded in major schools of thought in International Relations (realism, liberalism, constructivism), which seek to predict and explain Germany's foreign policy behavior. The second is to test competing predictions, derived from the foreign policy theories, in several issue-areas of German foreign policy. Third, the project assesses the question as to whether and to what extent post-unification Germany's foreign policy is marked by continuity or change.
Publications*:
Rainer Baumann/Volker Rittberger/Wolfgang Wagner 2001: Neorealist Foreign Policy Theory, in: Volker Rittberger (ed.), German Foreign Policy since Unification. An Analysis of Foreign Policy Continuity and Change, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 37-67.
Rainer Baumann 2001: Security Policy within NATO, in: Volker Rittberger (ed.), German Foreign Policy since Unification. An Analysis of Foreign Policy Continuity and Change, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 141-184.
Rainer Baumann/Volker Rittberger/Wolfgang Wagner 1999: Macht und Machtpolitik. Neorealistische Außenpolitiktheorie und Prognosen über die deutsche Außenpolitik nach der Vereinigung, in: Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen 6: 2, 245-286.
The War Powers of Congress and the U.S. President (partly conducted with Thomas Greven, 1994-1996)
Publication:
Rainer Baumann/Thomas Greven 1995: Congress, the President, and the Use of Force. John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Working Paper 82/95, Berlin.
Soviet Policy in the Two-Plus-Four Negotiations on German Unification (with Basil Kerski, 1993)
Publication:
Rainer Baumann/Basil Kerski 1994: Deutschlandpolitisches Faustpfand oder bloße Verhandlungsmasse? Sowjetische Truppenpräsenz und die Neugestaltung des sicherheitspolitischen Status Deutschlands, in: Gunther Hellmann (ed.): Alliierte Präsenz und deutsche Einheit. Die politischen Folgen militärischer Macht, Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 195-227.
[ * Note: For collaborative research projects not headed by Rainer Baumann, only those books, articles and papers authored or co-authored by Rainer Baumann are listed here.]