Stephanie Hofmann

Stephanie Hofmann
Address: Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik
Ludwigkirchplatz 3-4
10719 Berlin
Germany
E-Mail: sch35@cornell.edu
Telephone: +49 30 880 07 226

Project

NATO and Political Europe: European security efforts in the shadow of NATO

The project explores political party ideologies in the multilateral setting of European security policy. I argue not only that political parties matter for the security policies of individual states, but also that the aggregation of political party ideologies at the international level has important consequences in international relations. The critical questions in my analysis examine why European states have tried to create a new security institution in an institutionalized space already occupied by North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and why there has been variation in the outcomes of these attempts over the past six decades. I trace the answers to both questions back to the ideologies of European political parties. I find the impetus for proposals to create security institutions in political party ideologies, and explain that the ability to institutionalize such proposals depends on the degree of ideological congruence among political parties in power in key European states.

Expertise

Publications

2007

2005

2004

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