Flying Tiger
International Relations Theory and the Politics of Advanced Weapons
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 28 July 2011
- ISBN 9780199759934
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages272 pages
- Size 163x239x27 mm
- Weight 522 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 1 b/w illus. 0
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Short description:
Ulrich Krotz's Flying Tiger takes a relatively obscure episode--the joint Franco-German production of a state-of-the-art and very expensive military helicopter, the Tiger helicopter--to make a groundbreaking theoretical contribution to international relations scholarship.
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Ulrich Krotz's Flying Tiger takes a relatively obscure episode--the joint Franco-German production of a state-of-the-art and very expensive military helicopter, the Tiger Helicopter (used in the James Bond film Goldeneye, incidentally)--to make a groundbreaking theoretical contribution to international relations scholarship.
The rivalry between Germany and France in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is of course well known. It was directly or indirectly responsible for four cataclysmic wars, and until relatively recently, the idea that these two states could become close partners seemed implausible. Yet following World War II and the birth of the European Union, they became the closest of allies. In fact, they collaborated for three decades on the most sophisticated weapon that the EU has produced: the Tiger. How did this occur, and what does this happy albeit unforeseen outcome tell us about how interstate relations really work?
Through the lens of the Tiger, Krotz draws from two theoretical approaches--social constructivism and historical institutionalism--to reframe our understanding of how international relationships evolve. International relations scholars have always focused on relations between states, yet have failed to think in any sustained way about how interstate relationships both remold domestic realities and derive from them. How does a relationship between states impact upon a state internally? And how do the internal institutional dynamics of a state limit such relationships? While International Relations scholars have touched on these issues, until now no one has provided a sustained, finely grained, and historically informed analysis that explains how international relations socially constructs domestic realities and how in turn domestic politics and institutions structure interstate relationships.
Krotz's account of how the Tiger project was funded and how the device was built perfectly illustrates his theoretical claims about the dialectical relationship of 'high' interstate politics and 'low' domestic politics. Two famous rivals completely reshaped their relationship through a complicated, decades-long process in which the nuts and bolts of domestic politics--approvals for state funding as well as laws regarding corporations and technology transfer, for instance--were instrumental in creating a new reality.
Flying Tiger is a truly extraordinary book, which will soon be considered a classic and essential to the canons of international relations theory and European politics. It is a model for combining brilliant, insightful theorizing with painstaking, detailed empirical narration. While many see high politics as contributing to the uncertain future or even outright failure of the European project, Krotz uncovers, theorizes, and explains a successful effort at bilateral development and production of advanced weaponry. This is, as Krotz puts it, 'a different sort of European integration,' but integration nonetheless.
Table of Contents:
Tables and Figures
Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Political Institutionalization, Social Construction, and Physical Reality
International Relations and National Interest
Why Cooperate? (1974-1982)
Bilateral Will and National Resilience (1982-1984)
Cost Explosions, Delays, Obstacles, Restoration (1984-1987)
Becoming Reality (1988-2009)
Findings, Conclusions, Implications
Appendix
Costs, Phases, Names
Notes
Bibliography
Index
