Open AccessMilitarizing politics, essentializing identities: Interpretivist process tracing and the power of geopolitics
Author(s) -
Stefano Guzzini
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
cooperation and conflict
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.224
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1460-3691
pISSN - 0010-8367
DOI - 10.1177/0010836717719735
Subject(s) - geopolitics , foreign policy , politics , process tracing , power (physics) , identity (music) , political science , epistemology , foreign policy analysis , great power , sociology , international relations , positive economics , political economy , law , philosophy , economics , aesthetics , physics , quantum mechanics
This reply to the Symposium on Stefano Guzzini (ed.) The return of geopolitics in Europe?, answers the criticisms by John Agnew, Jeffrey Checkel, Dan Deudney and Jennifer Mitzen. It 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, it develops the logic of the book’s main mechanism of foreign policy identity crisis reduction
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