National Interests Revisited: The German Case
in German Politics and Society
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Patricia A. Davis
Patricia A. Davis
University of Notre Dame
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There has been much debate recently on the role of cognition in
determining national interest and thus indirectly foreign policy. The
argument has been made by many poststructuralists that interestbased
arguments are static in that they do not allow for change in
the determination of national interest. These arguments allegedly fail
to take into account the powerful role of social norms and culture in
influencing what “states make of anarchy.”