Symposium debating 'The return of geopolitics in Europe?'
John Agnew (UCLA), Jeffrey Checkel (Simon Fraser University), Dan Deudney (Johns Hopkins University) and Jennifer Mitzen (Ohio State University) discuss the theses of Stefano Guzzini's 'The return of geopolitics in Europe? Social mechanisms and foreign policy identity crises'. Their critique ranges from the definition of geopolitics, its place in European security, to methodological issues of process-tracing, the conceptualisation of identity crises, and the wider theorisation of geopolitical discourses in the book.
In his rejoinderMilitarizing politics, essentializing identities: Interpretivist process tracing and the power of geopolitics, Guzzini justifies (1) its specific definition and critique of geopolitics as a theory – and not just a foreign policy strategy; (2) its proposed interpretivist process tracing; (3) the role of mechanisms in constructivist theorizing and foreign policy theory; and (4) its usage of non-Humean causality in the analysis of multiple parallel processes and their interaction. At the same time, the rejoinder develops the logic of the book’s main mechanism of foreign policy identity crisis reduction.
The websites of the other contributors
John Agnew, UCLA
Jeffrey Checkel, Simon Fraser University, Canada
