Flying Tiger

In this book Ulrich Krotz draws from two theoretical approaches--social constructivism and historical institutionalism--to reframe our understanding of how international relationships evolve. While other scholars have touched on these issues until now no one has provided a sustained finely-grained and historically-informed analysis that explains how international relations inform domestic realities and how in turn domestic politics and institutions structure interstate relationships. Fully researched in French German and English Krotz''s account of how the Tiger Helicopter project was conceived and funded and how the combat helicopter was built and exported presents a clear analysis about the dialectical relationship between ''high'' interstate politics and ''low'' domestic politics making a groundbreaking theoretical contribution to international relations scholarship.