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Examines postwar debates within Germany and Japan over how to promote domestic and regional order.

Examines postwar debates within Germany and Japan over how to promote domestic and regional order.

Cultures of Order explores how Germany and Japan each struggled to define an appropriate role for themselves in the postwar international order. In Germany, proponents of institutional constraint fought and generally prevailed over those who stressed national rights. This pattern continued even as Germany achieved unification at the end of the Cold War. In Japan, however, the national rights strategy was more successful, and Japanese leaders have been less willing than their German counterparts to predicate international order on commitment to an emergent institutional framework. In both cases, the choices made by leaders were critical, despite the constraints under which they operated. In this book the authors utilize a constructivist theory of order, emphasizing the distinctive ways language works to normative effect, to explain these debates and how they have contributed to two very different "cultures of order."

Acknowledgments
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1. Introduction

Order in International Relations
A German Debate Contributions of Constructivism
Overview of the Book

2. Language and the Problem of Order

Constructing Order
Towards a New European Order
Conclusion

3. The Westpolitik Debate

Adenauer and Institutional Constraint Schumacher and National Rights
The Westpolitik Debate
Conclusion

4. The Ostpolitik Debate

Kiesinger and State Rights
Brandt and Institutional Expansion
The Ostpolitik Debate
Conclusion

5. The Deutschlandpolitik Debate

Kohl and Institutional Achievement Lafontaine and European Rights
The Deutschlandpolitik Debate Conclusion

6. Japan and the Problem of Order

Yoshida and the Path from Realism to Rights
Order and the Yoshida Doctrine
A Debate Foreclosed
Conclusion

7. Conclusion

The New World Order in Germany
Constructing Order, Constructivist Theory

Notes
Bibliography
Index