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Culture and Collective Action

Japan, Germany and the United States after 11 September 2001

German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Institute of Asian Affairs, Hamburg, Germany, nabers{at}giga-hamburg.de

In order to put a lens on the issue of international security cooperation after 11 September 2001, this article examines the question of how collective action in International Relations becomes possible. The author maintains that a fair amount of inter-state collective action can be understood, even explained, by analysing the culture of the international system. Using discourse analysis as a tool, the analysis addresses the underlying ideas, norms and identities that constitute the relationship between the United States and Japan, on the one hand, and Germany and the United States, on the other, as it has evolved since September 2001. The method exposes how some ideas are privileged over others, how norms are maintained, reformulated and abandoned, how identity is constructed and how power is legitimized in the ‘war on terror’.

Key Words: culture • discourse • Germany • ideas • identity • Japan • norms • United States

Cooperation and Conflict, Vol. 41, No. 3, 305-326 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/0010836706066561


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