Role conceptions, crises, and Georgia's foreign policy

被引:5
作者
Nilsson, Niklas [1 ]
机构
[1] Swedish Def Univ, Dept Mil Studies, War Studies, Stockholm, Sweden
关键词
Crisis; foreign policy; Georgia; role conflict; role theory; socialization; NATIONAL ROLE CONCEPTIONS; ROLE-CONFLICT; STATE; SOCIALIZATION; INSTITUTIONS; PLAY; WAR; EU;
D O I
10.1177/0010836718808332
中图分类号
D81 [国际关系];
学科分类号
030207 ;
摘要
This article explores the scope conditions of national role conceptions as reference points for foreign policy decision making during crises. It aims to contribute to a refined perspective of the agency of new states undergoing socialization processes in relations with significant others. Drawing on a primary material consisting of interviews with Georgian and US officials, the article analyzes the significance of Georgia's role conceptions in the country's relations with the USA in relation to two major crises: the 2007 riots in Tbilisi and the 2008 war with Russia. The article posits that crises provide situational circumstances where the requirements of appropriate behavior associated with role expectations may enter into conflict with the demands of the immediate situation. In order to resolve ensuing role conflicts, actors face the need to both rationalize role expectations, and to compensate for departures from them. In turn, these strategies relate to the possibility for change and stability in role conceptions, and by extension their enactment in foreign policy. The analysis of the Georgian government's management of the two crises demonstrates actions that implied both rationalization and compensation, aiming to retain the credibility of its existing role conceptions in the eyes of its US counterparts.
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页码:445 / 465
页数:21
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