ABSTRACT
Chapter 4 first provides a historical overview that tracks key events and demonstrates the contradictions of Germany’s policy in 2002–2003. After that, the focus shifts to the sedimented rules and routinised practices that constitute the ‘common sense’ of Germany’s foreign policy, which are defined in the form of the social logics of state sovereignty, peaceful resolution and international communities. The three logics shape policies by providing resources from which these must be constructed to be thinkable and socially acceptable. In the first reading, the contradictions in Germany’s policy are explained in terms of conflicts between different social logics.
