Jakub Eberle is Research Director at the Institute of International Relations Prague and Lecturer at Prague University of Economics and Business. He works on the role of language, emotions and identity in foreign and security policy. He is the author of Discourse and Affect in Foreign Policy: Germany and the Iraq War (Routledge, 2019), as well as a dozen of articles published in International Political Sociology, Political Geography, Political Psychology, Cooperation and Conflict and elsewhere. The work on this volume was conducted during his stay at Charles University.Alister Miskimmon is Professor of International Relations and Head of the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics at Queen’s University Belfast, UK. His most recent books include, with Ben O’Loughlin and Jinghan Zeng, One Belt, One Road, One Story? Towards an EU-China Strategic Narrative (2021), and with Ben O’Loughlin and Laura Roselle, Forging the World: Strategic Narratives and International Relations (2017).

• Introduction: International Theory and German Foreign Policy 1. Germany as a Dividual Actor: Competing Social Logics and their Political Articulations 2. Welche Macht darf es denn sein? Tracing ‘Power’ in German Foreign Policy Discourse 3. Beyond Culture and Power: The Role of Party Ideologies in German Foreign and Security Policy 4. Leader of the ‘Free World’? Studying German Foreign Policy by Means of External Attributions 5. The Enduring Culture of Restraint in Modern Germany: German Mentalités on the Use of Force as Portrayed in Contemporary Television Narratives 6. Poliheuristic Theory and Germany’s (Non-)Participation in Multinational Military Interventions. The Non-compensatory Principle, Coalition Politics and Political Survival 7. The Challenge of Creating an Adaptive Bundeswehr Conclusion: German Foreign Policy in the (post-)Corona World

Jakub Eberle is Research Director at the Institute of International Relations Prague and Lecturer at Prague University of Economics and Business. He works on the role of language, emotions and identity in foreign and security policy. He is the author of Discourse and Affect in Foreign Policy: Germany and the Iraq War (Routledge, 2019), as well as a dozen of articles published in International Political Sociology, Political Geography, Political Psychology, Cooperation and Conflict and elsewhere. The work on this volume was conducted during his stay at Charles University.Alister Miskimmon is Professor of International Relations and Head of the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics at Queen’s University Belfast, UK. His most recent books include, with Ben O’Loughlin and Jinghan Zeng, One Belt, One Road, One Story? Towards an EU-China Strategic Narrative (2021), and with Ben O’Loughlin and Laura Roselle, Forging the World: Strategic Narratives and International Relations (2017).

• Introduction: International Theory and German Foreign Policy 1. Germany as a Dividual Actor: Competing Social Logics and their Political Articulations 2. Welche Macht darf es denn sein? Tracing ‘Power’ in German Foreign Policy Discourse 3. Beyond Culture and Power: The Role of Party Ideologies in German Foreign and Security Policy 4. Leader of the ‘Free World’? Studying German Foreign Policy by Means of External Attributions 5. The Enduring Culture of Restraint in Modern Germany: German Mentalités on the Use of Force as Portrayed in Contemporary Television Narratives 6. Poliheuristic Theory and Germany’s (Non-)Participation in Multinational Military Interventions. The Non-compensatory Principle, Coalition Politics and Political Survival 7. The Challenge of Creating an Adaptive Bundeswehr Conclusion: German Foreign Policy in the (post-)Corona World

Jakub Eberle is Research Director at the Institute of International Relations Prague and Lecturer at Prague University of Economics and Business. He works on the role of language, emotions and identity in foreign and security policy. He is the author of Discourse and Affect in Foreign Policy: Germany and the Iraq War (Routledge, 2019), as well as a dozen of articles published in International Political Sociology, Political Geography, Political Psychology, Cooperation and Conflict and elsewhere. The work on this volume was conducted during his stay at Charles University.Alister Miskimmon is Professor of International Relations and Head of the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics at Queen’s University Belfast, UK. His most recent books include, with Ben O’Loughlin and Jinghan Zeng, One Belt, One Road, One Story? Towards an EU-China Strategic Narrative (2021), and with Ben O’Loughlin and Laura Roselle, Forging the World: Strategic Narratives and International Relations (2017).

• Introduction: International Theory and German Foreign Policy 1. Germany as a Dividual Actor: Competing Social Logics and their Political Articulations 2. Welche Macht darf es denn sein? Tracing ‘Power’ in German Foreign Policy Discourse 3. Beyond Culture and Power: The Role of Party Ideologies in German Foreign and Security Policy 4. Leader of the ‘Free World’? Studying German Foreign Policy by Means of External Attributions 5. The Enduring Culture of Restraint in Modern Germany: German Mentalités on the Use of Force as Portrayed in Contemporary Television Narratives 6. Poliheuristic Theory and Germany’s (Non-)Participation in Multinational Military Interventions. The Non-compensatory Principle, Coalition Politics and Political Survival 7. The Challenge of Creating an Adaptive Bundeswehr Conclusion: German Foreign Policy in the (post-)Corona World