Thomas Diez
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 385367 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Thomas Diez |
| PRENOMES | Thomas |
| SOBRENOME | Diez |
| ASSINATURA | DIEZ T |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Tübingen |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8056-6693 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 49 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 884 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 47 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1997 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
Forum
This Forum discusses how different international actors learn different lessons from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and how the logics discernible behind these lessons may define the future shapes of a new international order to substitute the post-1991 system of international relations. In this Forum, a group of scholars discuss the lessons learned from the perspective of Europe’s normative credentials, demonstrating tensions between idea(l)s of …
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Not anxious enough
This paper makes the case for a discursive understanding of ontological security and demonstrates the utility of such an approach in an analysis of European Parliament (EP) debates between 1990 and 2020. We argue that articulations of ontological (in)security operate through the (re)inscription of a set of metanarratives in what we call ‘discursive nodal points’. Building on an extensive analysis of EP debates over 30 years, we demonstrate that i…
Progressive and Regressive Securitisation
This paper contributes to the debate about the normative assessment of securitisation in light of Covid-19 and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It develops the distinction of progressive and regressive securitisation. In doing so, it emphasises the processual, contextual and ambiguous nature of securitisation. I suggest that progressive securitisation is closely linked to the solidarisation, whereas regressive securitisation implies the pluralisa…
Introduction
This introductory note discusses how the concept of securitisation might be used as a tool for understanding the different logics driving and standing behind foreign policies of major international stakeholders in situations of crises, emergencies and exceptions. The editors look at how securitisation functions as a discursive instrument for reshaping actors’ subjectivities, and how it might be adjusted to the rapid changes in global politics tri…
The EU, Korea, and conflict transformation through regional integration
Global justice and EU climate policy in a contested liberal international order
Following the failure of the Conference of the Parties (COP15) in 2009 in Copenhagen, the European Union has significantly altered its negotiation strategy in the global climate regime. It moved from an emphasis on 'leadership by example' and an insistence on top-down, binding targets within a framework of strong global governance institutions (impartiality in global justice terms) towards a strategy of shared leadership, increased dialogue (mutu…
Introduction
This introductory article argues that there is a need to introduce a renewed approach to the field of European Studies which takes into account various perspectives from the ‘periphery’ to unfold complexities and challenges of teaching and learning ‘Europe’ away from the immediate geographical and conceptual focus of the European studies. By elaborating on the notion of ‘periphery’ and exploring how European Studies resonate beyond ‘the centre’, …
Ejil Roll of Honour; 2021 Ejil Peer Reviewer Prize; Changes in the Masthead; Germany v Italy
EU and Global Climate Justice
Transforming identity in international society
The EU, Promoting Regional Integration, and Conflict Resolution
Diplomacy, Papacy, and the Transformation of International Society
Gone are the days in which analysts had assumed that religion would no longer play a role in politics, let alone international politics. We live in a post-secular age, and religion is back—yet it o
The Securitisation of Climate Change
This book provides the first systematic comparative analysis of climate security discourses. It analyses the securitisation of climate change in four different countries: USA, Germany, Turkey, and Mexico. The empirical analysis traces how specific climate-security discourses have become dominant, which actors have driven this process, what political consequences this has had and what role the broader context has played in enabling these specific …
Postmodern EU? Integration between Alternative Horizons and Territorial Angst
In the early 1990s, John Ruggie famously referred to the European Community as an emerging ‘postmodern polity’. This article elaborates on the ‘postmodern promise’ of European integration that Ruggie invoked, and formulates such a promise of European integration as one of radically breaking with the violent practices characteristic of the modern state. We argue that such a promise is immanent albeit historically marginalized in the project of Eur…
Solidarisation and its limits
The literature on international societies has widely recognised that the EU has formed a regional international society that has transcended the rules of Westphalian statecentred pluralism. However, the analysis of the consequences of this transcendence for global international society has so far been limited. For the most part, such studies have focused on the EU as a normative power, and even within that literature, there is much more attention…
The Devil is in the ‘Domestic’? European Integration Studies and the Limits of Europeanization in Turkey
The editors would like to thank Atila Eralp, Murat Ali Dulupçu, Murat Okçu, Tolga Bölükbaşı, Zeki Sarıgil, Saime Özçürümez and Daria Isachenko for organizing and chairing these events. The issue benefited greatly from the feedback of 14 anonymous referees of the contributions here, which the editors truly appreciate.Additional informationNotes on contributorsBaşak AlpanBaşak Alpan is an Assistant Professor and a Lecturer in European Politics and …
What's at Stake in Securitising Climate Change? Towards a Differentiated Approach
Climate change has been successfully represented as a security concern to such an extent that it is firmly established on the political agenda, even though the implementation of concrete policies is disputed. In this paper, we develop an analytical framework to better trace the process of securitising climate change and assess its normative implications. We establish a typology of six climate security discourses on the basis of two dimensions: th…
Die EU Lesen
An Introduction to International Relations Theory
This long-awaited new edition has been fully updated and revised by the original authors as well as two new members of the author team. Based on many years of active research and teaching it takes the discipline's most difficult aspects and makes them accessible and interesting. Each chapter builds up an understanding of the different ways of looking at the world. The clarity of presentation allows students to rapidly develop a theoretical framew…
Introduction to International Relations Theory
Setting the limits
This article discusses the relevance of discourse in the analysis of EU foreign policy. Instead of using discourse as a structure, the discursive struggles in meaning production are emphasised. The article argues that the literature trying to make a contribution to the explanation of EU foreign policy has so far overemphasised the positive function of discourses in influencing policies in their substance. In contrast, the article focuses on the d…
Normative power as hegemony
This article identifies four key problems in the debate about normative power Europe that may be fruitfully tackled when linking it to the concept of hegemony: the debate about whether EU foreign and external policy is driven by norms or interests; the problem of inconsistent behaviour as a result of competing and contested norms; the question of the role of state and non-state actors in EU foreign and external policy; and the problematic standin…
Not Quite ‘Sui Generis’ Enough
The debate about the role of the EU in international politics is dominated by the characterisation of the EU as a normative power. In this article, I argue that there are fundamental tensions between the core values that the EU is supposed to embody and articulate in this context. In a first step, I introduce democracy and justice as two exemplary values associated with European integration and introduce the argument about the tensions between th…
Key Concepts in International Relations
Constructing the Self and Changing Others
The European Union (EU) is widely seen as a novel kind of actor in international politics. This has been captured succinctly by Ian Manner's term `normative power Europe'. This article reviews the literature on the concept of normative power and relates it to the earlier literature on civilian power. It argues that these concepts of power should be seen as part of the same discourse; a discourse which is not confined to the EU, but includes the c…
Speaking 'Europe
The role of language has as yet been largely neglected in studies of European integration. This article provides the theoretical groundwork to remedy this gap through discourse analysis. Its main argument is that attempts to capture the EU's nature both in the political and the academic debate themselves take part in the construction of the Euro-polity. The article proceeds in three moves: an 'Austinian' move introducing the notion of a performat…
Europe's others and the return of geopolitics
In the context of European Union enlargement and the discussions about a European constitution, the question of Europe's identity has once again entered the limelight of political debates. From a poststructuralist perspective, identities are constructed through practices of othering, articulating a difference. In this article, I follow Ole Wæver to argue that for most of the time after the Second World War the most important other in the construc…
Normative power as hegemony
This article identifies four key problems in the debate about normative power Europe that may be fruitfully tackled when linking it to the concept of hegemony: the debate about whether EU foreign and external policy is driven by norms or interests; the problem of inconsistent behaviour as a result of competing and contested norms; the question of the role of state and non-state actors in EU foreign and external policy; and the problematic standin…
Europe as a Discursive Battleground
Problems of European integration and governance are increasingly analysed from a discursive perspective. This article reviews the merits of such an approach. Two analytical strands, the Copenhagen and the Governance School, are discussed in depth, both of which in their own ways look at the possibility of legitimately articulating a particular conception of Europe (and governance). Out of this discussion, and taking on board the ideas of German `…
The European Union and Border Conflicts
Our article analyzes the impact of the European Union (EU) on border conflicts, in particular how integration and association are related to conflict transformation. We approach this issue from a theoretically as well as empirically grounded constructivist perspective. On this basis we propose a stage model of conflict development, based on the degree of securitization and societal reach of conflict communication. We argue that the EU can transfo…
File
This article reviews the Europeanization literature and proposes to distinguish between four different kinds of Europeanization: policy-Europeanization, political Europeanization, societal Europeanization and discursive Europeanization. We link these different concepts to the impact of the EU on the current domestic transformations in Turkey and argue that existing scholarship has not sufficiently discussed the impact of Europeanization on civil …
Setting the limits
This article discusses the relevance of discourse in the analysis of EU foreign policy. Instead of using discourse as a structure, the discursive struggles in meaning production are emphasised. The article argues that the literature trying to make a contribution to the explanation of EU foreign policy has so far overemphasised the positive function of discourses in influencing policies in their substance. In contrast, the article focuses on the d…
Which Europe
Conflicts over the shape of the European Union are usually modelled as conflicts of interests. This article argues that the development of a polity depends not only on interests but also on normative ideas about a legitimate political order (`polity-ideas'). These polity-ideas are extremely stable over time and resistant to change because they are linked to the identity and basic normative orientations of the actors involved. The article has four…
International Ethics and European Integration
Practical problems of international politics are often described in terms of building a bigger and better state—a European Union or an Atlantic Community or an Arab Union, without seeing that such an achievement would leave the problems of inter-state politics precisely where they were
What's at Stake in Securitising Climate Change? Towards a Differentiated Approach
Climate change has been successfully represented as a security concern to such an extent that it is firmly established on the political agenda, even though the implementation of concrete policies is disputed. In this paper, we develop an analytical framework to better trace the process of securitising climate change and assess its normative implications. We establish a typology of six climate security discourses on the basis of two dimensions: th…
The Changing Nature of International Institutions in Europe
The European Union is often compared to other political systems in order to better understand its basic features and how they structure politics. This article argues that this focus on comparative politics instils a domestic bias into the study of the EU, which also ignores the impact of enlargement. To remedy this, a comparison is suggested between the order of the EU as a regional international society and the order of the traditional, global i…
A useful dialogue? Habermas and International Relations
It is now more than twenty years since Jürgen Habermas's work was first referred to in International Relations (IR) theory. Along with many other continental philosophers and social theorists, Habermas was initially mobilised in the critique of positivism, and in particular neorealism, in IR theory. As such, the interest in Habermas and IR must be located in the first instance within the context of the fourth debate. This Forum section of the Rev…
Riding the AM-track through Europe; or, The Pitfalls of a Rationalist Journey Through European Integration
Reconfiguring Spaces of Conflict
The Irish border has historically been one of the most contested borders in Europe. In the context of the peace process and EU membership, co-operation between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland has been encouraged, supported and normalised, although internal borders of segregation stubbornly remain. This paper offers a conceptualisation of borders in conflict cases and a theoretical account of how European integration can affect their …
The Paradoxes of Europe's Borders
Postmodern EU? Integration between Alternative Horizons and Territorial Angst
In the early 1990s, John Ruggie famously referred to the European Community as an emerging ‘postmodern polity’. This article elaborates on the ‘postmodern promise’ of European integration that Ruggie invoked, and formulates such a promise of European integration as one of radically breaking with the violent practices characteristic of the modern state. We argue that such a promise is immanent albeit historically marginalized in the project of Eur…
Traditions of citizenship and the securitisation of migration in Germany and Britain
The European Union is often seen as a laboratory for a post-national polity. Leaving aside important discussions regarding exclusionary citizenship practices at the European level, this article draws attention to the on-going importance of member states' citizenship traditions, which constrain the development of post-national citizenship in the EU. Considering the cases of Germany and the UK, the article shows how longer-standing citizenship trad…
The European Union and Turkey
The EU decision to put Turkey's application for full membership on indefinite hold underscores the urgent need to develop alternative visions for their future relationship. The assumption that Turkey will eventually become a full member can no longer be maintained. A new relationship should be built on the mutual recognition that Turkey and the EU have durable joint interests that require a close relationship, but also durable differences - which…
Solidarisation and its limits
The literature on international societies has widely recognised that the EU has formed a regional international society that has transcended the rules of Westphalian statecentred pluralism. However, the analysis of the consequences of this transcendence for global international society has so far been limited. For the most part, such studies have focused on the EU as a normative power, and even within that literature, there is much more attention…
Turkey, the European Union and Security Complexes Revisited
In 1999, Barry Buzan and the author used Regional Security Complex Theory to argue that Turkey and the European Union (EU) should look for alternatives to full Turkish EU membership. This was based on the security stability that Turkey as an insulator in the international system would provide; on the argument that there was a conflation of westernization and Europeanization in Turkey that served to suppress civil society actors; and on the increa…
Analysing European Integration
The English School of international relations has rarely been used to analyse European integration. But, as we argue in this article, there may be considerable value in adding the English School to the canon of approaches to European integration studies in order to contextualize European integration both historically and internationally. The concepts of international society, world society and empire in particular may be used to reconfigure the c…
Expanding Europe
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Diplomacy, Papacy, and the Transformation of International Society
Gone are the days in which analysts had assumed that religion would no longer play a role in politics, let alone international politics. We live in a post-secular age, and religion is back—yet it o
Not Quite ‘Sui Generis’ Enough
The debate about the role of the EU in international politics is dominated by the characterisation of the EU as a normative power. In this article, I argue that there are fundamental tensions between the core values that the EU is supposed to embody and articulate in this context. In a first step, I introduce democracy and justice as two exemplary values associated with European integration and introduce the argument about the tensions between th…
International Ethics and European Integration
Practical problems of international politics are often described in terms of building a bigger and better state—a European Union or an Atlantic Community or an Arab Union, without seeing that such an achievement would leave the problems of inter-state politics precisely where they were
Which Europe
Conflicts over the shape of the European Union are usually modelled as conflicts of interests. This article argues that the development of a polity depends not only on interests but also on normative ideas about a legitimate political order (`polity-ideas'). These polity-ideas are extremely stable over time and resistant to change because they are linked to the identity and basic normative orientations of the actors involved. The article has four…
Die EU lesen
Die EU lesen
Riding the AM-track through Europe; or, The Pitfalls of a Rationalist Journey Through European Integration
The European Union and Turkey
The EU decision to put Turkey's application for full membership on indefinite hold underscores the urgent need to develop alternative visions for their future relationship. The assumption that Turkey will eventually become a full member can no longer be maintained. A new relationship should be built on the mutual recognition that Turkey and the EU have durable joint interests that require a close relationship, but also durable differences - which…
Speaking 'Europe
The role of language has as yet been largely neglected in studies of European integration. This article provides the theoretical groundwork to remedy this gap through discourse analysis. Its main argument is that attempts to capture the EU's nature both in the political and the academic debate themselves take part in the construction of the Euro-polity. The article proceeds in three moves: an 'Austinian' move introducing the notion of a performat…
Europe as a Discursive Battleground
Problems of European integration and governance are increasingly analysed from a discursive perspective. This article reviews the merits of such an approach. Two analytical strands, the Copenhagen and the Governance School, are discussed in depth, both of which in their own ways look at the possibility of legitimately articulating a particular conception of Europe (and governance). Out of this discussion, and taking on board the ideas of German `…
Analysing European Integration
The English School of international relations has rarely been used to analyse European integration. But, as we argue in this article, there may be considerable value in adding the English School to the canon of approaches to European integration studies in order to contextualize European integration both historically and internationally. The concepts of international society, world society and empire in particular may be used to reconfigure the c…
Europe's others and the return of geopolitics
In the context of European Union enlargement and the discussions about a European constitution, the question of Europe's identity has once again entered the limelight of political debates. From a poststructuralist perspective, identities are constructed through practices of othering, articulating a difference. In this article, I follow Ole Wæver to argue that for most of the time after the Second World War the most important other in the construc…
Turkey, the European Union and Security Complexes Revisited
In 1999, Barry Buzan and the author used Regional Security Complex Theory to argue that Turkey and the European Union (EU) should look for alternatives to full Turkish EU membership. This was based on the security stability that Turkey as an insulator in the international system would provide; on the argument that there was a conflation of westernization and Europeanization in Turkey that served to suppress civil society actors; and on the increa…
Constructing the Self and Changing Others
The European Union (EU) is widely seen as a novel kind of actor in international politics. This has been captured succinctly by Ian Manner's term `normative power Europe'. This article reviews the literature on the concept of normative power and relates it to the earlier literature on civilian power. It argues that these concepts of power should be seen as part of the same discourse; a discourse which is not confined to the EU, but includes the c…
A useful dialogue? Habermas and International Relations
It is now more than twenty years since Jürgen Habermas's work was first referred to in International Relations (IR) theory. Along with many other continental philosophers and social theorists, Habermas was initially mobilised in the critique of positivism, and in particular neorealism, in IR theory. As such, the interest in Habermas and IR must be located in the first instance within the context of the fourth debate. This Forum section of the Rev…
File
This article reviews the Europeanization literature and proposes to distinguish between four different kinds of Europeanization: policy-Europeanization, political Europeanization, societal Europeanization and discursive Europeanization. We link these different concepts to the impact of the EU on the current domestic transformations in Turkey and argue that existing scholarship has not sufficiently discussed the impact of Europeanization on civil …
The Paradoxes of Europe's Borders
The European Union and Border Conflicts
Our article analyzes the impact of the European Union (EU) on border conflicts, in particular how integration and association are related to conflict transformation. We approach this issue from a theoretically as well as empirically grounded constructivist perspective. On this basis we propose a stage model of conflict development, based on the degree of securitization and societal reach of conflict communication. We argue that the EU can transfo…
Expanding Europe
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The European Union and Border Conflicts
It is generally assumed that regional integration leads to stability and peace. This book is a systematic study of the impact of European integration on the transformation of border conflicts. It provides a theoretical framework centred on four 'pathways' of impact and applies them to five cases of border conflicts: Cyprus, Ireland, Greece/Turkey, Israel/Palestine and various conflicts on Russia's border with the EU. The contributors suggest that…
The Continuing Puzzle of European Identity
Reconfiguring Spaces of Conflict
The Irish border has historically been one of the most contested borders in Europe. In the context of the peace process and EU membership, co-operation between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland has been encouraged, supported and normalised, although internal borders of segregation stubbornly remain. This paper offers a conceptualisation of borders in conflict cases and a theoretical account of how European integration can affect their …
Michel Foucault and the Problematization of European Governance
Journal Article Michel Foucault and the Problematization of European Governance Get access Thomas Diez Thomas Diez University of Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Political Sociology, Volume 2, Issue 3, September 2008, Pages 266–268, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-5687.2008.00049_2.x Published: 19 August 2008
Traditions of citizenship and the securitisation of migration in Germany and Britain
The European Union is often seen as a laboratory for a post-national polity. Leaving aside important discussions regarding exclusionary citizenship practices at the European level, this article draws attention to the on-going importance of member states' citizenship traditions, which constrain the development of post-national citizenship in the EU. Considering the cases of Germany and the UK, the article shows how longer-standing citizenship trad…
European Union and Border Conflicts
Key Concepts in International Relations
The Changing Nature of International Institutions in Europe
The European Union is often compared to other political systems in order to better understand its basic features and how they structure politics. This article argues that this focus on comparative politics instils a domestic bias into the study of the EU, which also ignores the impact of enlargement. To remedy this, a comparison is suggested between the order of the EU as a regional international society and the order of the traditional, global i…
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