James Sperling
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3628527 |
|---|---|
| NOME | James Sperling |
| PRENOMES | James |
| SOBRENOME | Sperling |
| ASSINATURA | SPERLING J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Akron |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 125 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1986 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Collective Securitisation and Security Governance in the European Union
Trump’s foreign policy and Nato
Donald Trump assumed office in January 2017, committed to revamping US foreign policy and putting ‘America First’. The clear implication was that long-held international commitments would be sidelined where, in Trump’s view, the American interest was not being served. NATO, in the crosshairs of this approach, has managed to ride out much of the criticism Trump has levelled against it. Written off as ‘obsolete’ by the American president, it has fa…
American leadership of the Atlantic alliance post-Kosovo
Although American leadership of NATO had been a constant over the entire postwar period, after the Soviet threat evaporated in the 1990s Americans began a process of reassessing the necessity and desirability of this leadership as well as the American return on its investment in NATO. Europeans, in turn, enjoyed a policy emancipation allowing them to follow the U.S. lead, resist (or reject) it when American policies violated European interests or…
The European Union
The EU has long been recognised as a complex security actor with competences across a variety of security-relevant issues. These competences add up to a form of security governance, the purpose of which is to guard against a multiplicity of threats. How threats (and, for that matter, risks) are defined can be seen as the outcome of processes of securitisation where authoritative actors articulate a logic of security – discursively constructing th…
Nato and the Ukraine crisis
In securitisation theory (ST) little attention has been paid to how actors undertake securitisation collectively. The empirical focus of that theory has also, paradoxically, neglected the military-strategic sector and with it regional security organisations like NATO. Such an oversight is worth correcting for three reasons. First, NATO is constantly engaged in securitisation across a range of issues, a process that reflects an underappreciated re…
Germany, Russia, and the Rise of Geo-Economics
Stephen F. Szabo has written a concise, nuanced and timely book on Russo–German relations. It is a gem. The crisis ignited by the annexation of Crimea and warfare in eastern Ukraine gives this book
Nato's Intervention in the Afghan Civil War
Afghanistan has provided NATO with its severest test of the post-Cold War period. The Alliance has set the end of 2014 as the target date for a withdrawal from combat operations and the consolidation of an Afghan lead in security provision throughout the country. It is an open question as to what the security situation will be once that crossroad is reached, but observation of progress since 2001 suggests that a lingering military stalemate is li…
National Security Cultures
This edited collection examines changes in national security cultures in the wake of international events that have threatened regional or global order, and analyses the effects of these divergent responses on international security. Tracing the links between national security cultures and preferred forms of security governance, the work provides a systematic account of perceived security threats and the preferred methods of response with individ…
Low expectations
The American attentive foreign policy elite's perceptions of Italy as a foreign policy actor appear inconsistent with Italy's global role. The paradox of Italy's global status as a middle-power and the absence of status within the American foreign policy community raises three questions: What role should we expect Italy to play in American foreign policy calculations given its structural position in the international system? What role does Italy …
Germany and America in the Twenty-first Century
Two events have fundamentally altered the trajectory of the post-war German–American relationship into the twenty-first century: the American response to the existential challenge posed to open societies by those aligned with the purposes and methods of al-Qaeda and the Taliban; and the destabilisation of the global economy initiated with the collapse of the international financial system in 2008 conjoined to the largely uncoordinated national po…
Sharing the Burden of Collective Security in the European Union
This article compares European Union (EU) burden-sharing in security governance distinguishing between assurance, prevention, protection, and compellence policies. We employ joint-product models and examine the variation in the level of publicness, the asymmetry of the distribution of costs and benefits, and aggregation technologies in each policy domain. Joint-product models predict equal burden-sharing for protection and assurance because of th…
Nato
NATO has throughout its history been the subject of prognostications of crisis and dissolution. Indeed, the alliance has been written off so many times that crisis as normality has come to typify its development. In the twenty-year history of NATO's post-Cold War development, Operation Allied Force stands midway between the existential moment that was the collapse of the Soviet bloc and the current travails being experienced in Afghanistan. A com…
Is Germany a ‘good European’? German compliance with EU Law
It is often asserted that Germany has assimilated the norms and identity of European integration. In this essay, we test this proposition. After reviewing the literature on German EU policy, we argue that a good place to test whether Germany has become a ‘good European’ is in compliance with EU law. An unbiased test of the ‘good European’ hypothesis requires that we examine a body of patterned behavior that is highly constrained or constituted by…
Capabilities traps and gaps
The identification of critical capabilities shortfalls has elicited substantially different ‘to do’ lists in NATO, the European Union, and national defence ministry policies and initiatives. Moreover, these capabilities shortfalls have proven to be moving targets, particularly since American military primacy allows the United States to define the terms of the capabilities debate. The emerging transformation of American armed forces has aggravated…
The foreign policy of the Berlin republic
1. Germany's European Diplomacy: Shaping the Regional Milieu. Simon Bulmer, Charlie Jeffery and William E. Paterson. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000. Pp.148. 2. Germany's New Foreign
Positive/Negative Identity in the Euro-Atlantic Communities
This article appraises the positive identity hypothesis for the Euro-Atlantic area within two institutional contexts of action: NATO and the EU. The emergence of positive identity formation between Germany and her partners in the EU and NATO is found to be uneven, incomplete, and to vary considerably between specific dyads. At least two major obstacles to the completion of the process are identified. First, as Europe moves towards economic and se…
Neither Hegemony nor Dominance
German unification in 1989 raised the spectre of German hegemony in post-cold war Europe. In this article, I demonstrate that Germany lacks the structural power consistent with European hegemony or dominance; that there is little evidence supporting an appreciable gap between Germany's structural power and foreign policy ambitions; and that apparent symptoms of German hegemony, particularly the process of institutional emulation in Central and Ea…
Will form lead to function? Institutional enlargement and the creation of a European security and defence identity
Economic security and the problem of cooperation in post-Cold War Europe
The end of the Cold War and the transformation of the Yalta security system generated a debate about the survivability of the postwar institutions of security, particularly NATO. This debate is too narrow in its focus. We argue that security has two mutual constitutive elements, the political-military and the economic. The interdependence of these two elements of the future security architecture raises a set of interrelated questions addressed in…
The security architectures and institutional futures of post-1989 Europe
In this article, we identify the points of convergence, divergence and parallelism in the various security architectures on offer by the major powers; seek to place those architectures along the continuum of security system outcomes; and explore the issue of institutional choice in the contemporary European security order. We also address a set of questions derived from the institutional requirements of the European security order. Does the emerg…
The Future of Europe
List of Figures - List of Tables - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction - 1996: An Opportunity to Make Europe Relevant W.David, MEP - Democracy and the European Union M.Newman - Reinventing Government: The European Experience T.Butcher - Citizenship in the European Union: The Post-Maastricht Scenario D.Edye - Crime and Criminal Justice in the European Union F.Heidensohn - The European Union's Common Foreign and Security Policy Conundrum J.Han…
The security architectures and institutional futures of post-1989 Europe
In this article, we identify the points of convergence, divergence and parallelism in the various security architectures on offer by the major powers; seek to place those architectures along the continuum of security system outcomes; and explore the issue of institutional choice in the contemporary European security order. We also address a set of questions derived from the institutional requirements of the European security order. Does the emerg…
The Federal Republic of Germany and Nato
(Im)migration and German Security in Post-Yalta Europe
Making the case for ideology in security studies
The European Union
The EU has long been recognised as a complex security actor with competences across a variety of security-relevant issues. These competences add up to a form of security governance, the purpose of which is to guard against a multiplicity of threats. How threats (and, for that matter, risks) are defined can be seen as the outcome of processes of securitisation where authoritative actors articulate a logic of security – discursively constructing th…
Nato and the Ukraine crisis
In securitisation theory (ST) little attention has been paid to how actors undertake securitisation collectively. The empirical focus of that theory has also, paradoxically, neglected the military-strategic sector and with it regional security organisations like NATO. Such an oversight is worth correcting for three reasons. First, NATO is constantly engaged in securitisation across a range of issues, a process that reflects an underappreciated re…
Sharing the Burden of Collective Security in the European Union
This article compares European Union (EU) burden-sharing in security governance distinguishing between assurance, prevention, protection, and compellence policies. We employ joint-product models and examine the variation in the level of publicness, the asymmetry of the distribution of costs and benefits, and aggregation technologies in each policy domain. Joint-product models predict equal burden-sharing for protection and assurance because of th…
Trump’s foreign policy and Nato
Donald Trump assumed office in January 2017, committed to revamping US foreign policy and putting ‘America First’. The clear implication was that long-held international commitments would be sidelined where, in Trump’s view, the American interest was not being served. NATO, in the crosshairs of this approach, has managed to ride out much of the criticism Trump has levelled against it. Written off as ‘obsolete’ by the American president, it has fa…
Nato
NATO has throughout its history been the subject of prognostications of crisis and dissolution. Indeed, the alliance has been written off so many times that crisis as normality has come to typify its development. In the twenty-year history of NATO's post-Cold War development, Operation Allied Force stands midway between the existential moment that was the collapse of the Soviet bloc and the current travails being experienced in Afghanistan. A com…
German foreign policy after unification
In this article, three interrelated arguments are made: first, the economic costs of unification have diminished German economic capacity and consequently its diplomatic flexibility; second, unification has reopened the debate within Germany over the desirability of European Monetary Union (EMU) and has led to the redefinition of the minimum conditions necessary for German participation in EMU; and third, unification has reinforced the tendency t…
Nato's Intervention in the Afghan Civil War
Afghanistan has provided NATO with its severest test of the post-Cold War period. The Alliance has set the end of 2014 as the target date for a withdrawal from combat operations and the consolidation of an Afghan lead in security provision throughout the country. It is an open question as to what the security situation will be once that crossroad is reached, but observation of progress since 2001 suggests that a lingering military stalemate is li…
Positive/Negative Identity in the Euro-Atlantic Communities
This article appraises the positive identity hypothesis for the Euro-Atlantic area within two institutional contexts of action: NATO and the EU. The emergence of positive identity formation between Germany and her partners in the EU and NATO is found to be uneven, incomplete, and to vary considerably between specific dyads. At least two major obstacles to the completion of the process are identified. First, as Europe moves towards economic and se…
Neither Hegemony nor Dominance
German unification in 1989 raised the spectre of German hegemony in post-cold war Europe. In this article, I demonstrate that Germany lacks the structural power consistent with European hegemony or dominance; that there is little evidence supporting an appreciable gap between Germany's structural power and foreign policy ambitions; and that apparent symptoms of German hegemony, particularly the process of institutional emulation in Central and Ea…
The future Germany and the future of Nato
The events of 1989 have raised questions about NATO's future and purpose. Two different views are held by Germany and the USA. The Germans seek the political and economic unification of the EC, the construction of a European pillar within a demilitarised NATO, and a pan‐European collective security system. In contrast, the Americans seek to preserve NATO as a military alliance responsible for western European security under American leadership an…
Germany, Russia, and the Rise of Geo-Economics
Stephen F. Szabo has written a concise, nuanced and timely book on Russo–German relations. It is a gem. The crisis ignited by the annexation of Crimea and warfare in eastern Ukraine gives this book
Is Germany a ‘good European’? German compliance with EU Law
It is often asserted that Germany has assimilated the norms and identity of European integration. In this essay, we test this proposition. After reviewing the literature on German EU policy, we argue that a good place to test whether Germany has become a ‘good European’ is in compliance with EU law. An unbiased test of the ‘good European’ hypothesis requires that we examine a body of patterned behavior that is highly constrained or constituted by…
Capabilities traps and gaps
The identification of critical capabilities shortfalls has elicited substantially different ‘to do’ lists in NATO, the European Union, and national defence ministry policies and initiatives. Moreover, these capabilities shortfalls have proven to be moving targets, particularly since American military primacy allows the United States to define the terms of the capabilities debate. The emerging transformation of American armed forces has aggravated…
The security architectures and institutional futures of post-1989 Europe
In this article, we identify the points of convergence, divergence and parallelism in the various security architectures on offer by the major powers; seek to place those architectures along the continuum of security system outcomes; and explore the issue of institutional choice in the contemporary European security order. We also address a set of questions derived from the institutional requirements of the European security order. Does the emerg…
American leadership of the Atlantic alliance post-Kosovo
Although American leadership of NATO had been a constant over the entire postwar period, after the Soviet threat evaporated in the 1990s Americans began a process of reassessing the necessity and desirability of this leadership as well as the American return on its investment in NATO. Europeans, in turn, enjoyed a policy emancipation allowing them to follow the U.S. lead, resist (or reject) it when American policies violated European interests or…
Germany and America in the Twenty-first Century
Two events have fundamentally altered the trajectory of the post-war German–American relationship into the twenty-first century: the American response to the existential challenge posed to open societies by those aligned with the purposes and methods of al-Qaeda and the Taliban; and the destabilisation of the global economy initiated with the collapse of the international financial system in 2008 conjoined to the largely uncoordinated national po…
Economic security and the problem of cooperation in post-Cold War Europe
The end of the Cold War and the transformation of the Yalta security system generated a debate about the survivability of the postwar institutions of security, particularly NATO. This debate is too narrow in its focus. We argue that security has two mutual constitutive elements, the political-military and the economic. The interdependence of these two elements of the future security architecture raises a set of interrelated questions addressed in…
The Future of Europe
List of Figures - List of Tables - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction - 1996: An Opportunity to Make Europe Relevant W.David, MEP - Democracy and the European Union M.Newman - Reinventing Government: The European Experience T.Butcher - Citizenship in the European Union: The Post-Maastricht Scenario D.Edye - Crime and Criminal Justice in the European Union F.Heidensohn - The European Union's Common Foreign and Security Policy Conundrum J.Han…
The Atlantic economy after German unification
With the end of the cold war and the weakening of the security bond between Europe and the United States, economic relations assume increasing importance. As Europe's dominant economic power, Germany has a central role in the management of the trans‐Atlantic economy. This analysis of economic relations between Germany and the United States shows that whilst investment flows between the two economies suggest common interests and mutual dependence,…
Economy and Interdependence. U.S.-Western European Monetary and Trade Relations, 1958-1984. Thomas L. Ilgen
The Capitalist Revolution
West German Foreign Economic Policy during the Reagan Administration
Resisting Protectionism
The Atlantic economy after German unification
With the end of the cold war and the weakening of the security bond between Europe and the United States, economic relations assume increasing importance. As Europe's dominant economic power, Germany has a central role in the management of the trans‐Atlantic economy. This analysis of economic relations between Germany and the United States shows that whilst investment flows between the two economies suggest common interests and mutual dependence,…
The future Germany and the future of Nato
The events of 1989 have raised questions about NATO's future and purpose. Two different views are held by Germany and the USA. The Germans seek the political and economic unification of the EC, the construction of a European pillar within a demilitarised NATO, and a pan‐European collective security system. In contrast, the Americans seek to preserve NATO as a military alliance responsible for western European security under American leadership an…
The Federal Republic of Germany and Nato
(Im)migration and German Security in Post-Yalta Europe
German foreign policy after unification
In this article, three interrelated arguments are made: first, the economic costs of unification have diminished German economic capacity and consequently its diplomatic flexibility; second, unification has reopened the debate within Germany over the desirability of European Monetary Union (EMU) and has led to the redefinition of the minimum conditions necessary for German participation in EMU; and third, unification has reinforced the tendency t…
The security architectures and institutional futures of post-1989 Europe
In this article, we identify the points of convergence, divergence and parallelism in the various security architectures on offer by the major powers; seek to place those architectures along the continuum of security system outcomes; and explore the issue of institutional choice in the contemporary European security order. We also address a set of questions derived from the institutional requirements of the European security order. Does the emerg…
The Future of Europe
List of Figures - List of Tables - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction - 1996: An Opportunity to Make Europe Relevant W.David, MEP - Democracy and the European Union M.Newman - Reinventing Government: The European Experience T.Butcher - Citizenship in the European Union: The Post-Maastricht Scenario D.Edye - Crime and Criminal Justice in the European Union F.Heidensohn - The European Union's Common Foreign and Security Policy Conundrum J.Han…
The security architectures and institutional futures of post-1989 Europe
In this article, we identify the points of convergence, divergence and parallelism in the various security architectures on offer by the major powers; seek to place those architectures along the continuum of security system outcomes; and explore the issue of institutional choice in the contemporary European security order. We also address a set of questions derived from the institutional requirements of the European security order. Does the emerg…
Economic security and the problem of cooperation in post-Cold War Europe
The end of the Cold War and the transformation of the Yalta security system generated a debate about the survivability of the postwar institutions of security, particularly NATO. This debate is too narrow in its focus. We argue that security has two mutual constitutive elements, the political-military and the economic. The interdependence of these two elements of the future security architecture raises a set of interrelated questions addressed in…
Will form lead to function? Institutional enlargement and the creation of a European security and defence identity
Neither Hegemony nor Dominance
German unification in 1989 raised the spectre of German hegemony in post-cold war Europe. In this article, I demonstrate that Germany lacks the structural power consistent with European hegemony or dominance; that there is little evidence supporting an appreciable gap between Germany's structural power and foreign policy ambitions; and that apparent symptoms of German hegemony, particularly the process of institutional emulation in Central and Ea…
Positive/Negative Identity in the Euro-Atlantic Communities
This article appraises the positive identity hypothesis for the Euro-Atlantic area within two institutional contexts of action: NATO and the EU. The emergence of positive identity formation between Germany and her partners in the EU and NATO is found to be uneven, incomplete, and to vary considerably between specific dyads. At least two major obstacles to the completion of the process are identified. First, as Europe moves towards economic and se…
The foreign policy of the Berlin republic
1. Germany's European Diplomacy: Shaping the Regional Milieu. Simon Bulmer, Charlie Jeffery and William E. Paterson. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000. Pp.148. 2. Germany's New Foreign
Capabilities traps and gaps
The identification of critical capabilities shortfalls has elicited substantially different ‘to do’ lists in NATO, the European Union, and national defence ministry policies and initiatives. Moreover, these capabilities shortfalls have proven to be moving targets, particularly since American military primacy allows the United States to define the terms of the capabilities debate. The emerging transformation of American armed forces has aggravated…
Is Germany a ‘good European’? German compliance with EU Law
It is often asserted that Germany has assimilated the norms and identity of European integration. In this essay, we test this proposition. After reviewing the literature on German EU policy, we argue that a good place to test whether Germany has become a ‘good European’ is in compliance with EU law. An unbiased test of the ‘good European’ hypothesis requires that we examine a body of patterned behavior that is highly constrained or constituted by…
Sharing the Burden of Collective Security in the European Union
This article compares European Union (EU) burden-sharing in security governance distinguishing between assurance, prevention, protection, and compellence policies. We employ joint-product models and examine the variation in the level of publicness, the asymmetry of the distribution of costs and benefits, and aggregation technologies in each policy domain. Joint-product models predict equal burden-sharing for protection and assurance because of th…
Nato
NATO has throughout its history been the subject of prognostications of crisis and dissolution. Indeed, the alliance has been written off so many times that crisis as normality has come to typify its development. In the twenty-year history of NATO's post-Cold War development, Operation Allied Force stands midway between the existential moment that was the collapse of the Soviet bloc and the current travails being experienced in Afghanistan. A com…
National Security Cultures
This edited collection examines changes in national security cultures in the wake of international events that have threatened regional or global order, and analyses the effects of these divergent responses on international security. Tracing the links between national security cultures and preferred forms of security governance, the work provides a systematic account of perceived security threats and the preferred methods of response with individ…
Low expectations
The American attentive foreign policy elite's perceptions of Italy as a foreign policy actor appear inconsistent with Italy's global role. The paradox of Italy's global status as a middle-power and the absence of status within the American foreign policy community raises three questions: What role should we expect Italy to play in American foreign policy calculations given its structural position in the international system? What role does Italy …
Germany and America in the Twenty-first Century
Two events have fundamentally altered the trajectory of the post-war German–American relationship into the twenty-first century: the American response to the existential challenge posed to open societies by those aligned with the purposes and methods of al-Qaeda and the Taliban; and the destabilisation of the global economy initiated with the collapse of the international financial system in 2008 conjoined to the largely uncoordinated national po…
Nato's Intervention in the Afghan Civil War
Afghanistan has provided NATO with its severest test of the post-Cold War period. The Alliance has set the end of 2014 as the target date for a withdrawal from combat operations and the consolidation of an Afghan lead in security provision throughout the country. It is an open question as to what the security situation will be once that crossroad is reached, but observation of progress since 2001 suggests that a lingering military stalemate is li…
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