ABSTRACT
Only a few weeks after the downfall of Ben Ali, Germany offered Tunisia a ‘Transformation Partnership’. Despite few historical connecting points, the intensity of the bilateral relations has increased immensely since then. Building on Wendt’s systemic social constructivism, this chapter utilises a dynamic concept of friendship and explores the genesis and development of the German-Tunisian ‘Friendship-Spiral’ since early 2011. Through the reciprocal attribution of positive roles, substantiated by concrete political measures and a constant ‘ensuring-and-strengthening-each-other’, the intensifying relationship became a self-fulfilling prophecy, arguably culminating in a Kantian friendship in a Wendtian sense.
