Falk Ostermann

Foreign Policy | Military Intervention | Parties & Parliaments

Publications

Here are some publications coming out of issues I have been working on, presented in more detail. For the complete list of my publications, see below.

Routledge Handbook of Foreign Policy Analysis Methods

Routledge Handbook of Foreign Policy Analysis Methods

The disintegration and questioning of global governance structures and a re-orientation toward national politics combined with the spread of technological innovations such as big data, social media, and phenomena like…
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The Party Politics of Military Intervention in Australia and Executive Prerogatives: Ideology Meets Strategy and Culture

The Party Politics of Military Intervention in Australia and Executive Prerogatives: Ideology Meets Strategy and Culture

As an adjusted Westminster-style system with large executive room for maneuver in matters of foreign, security, and defense policies, Australia’s parliament does not have a formal say in sending troops…
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Security, Defense Discourse and Identity in NATO and Europe. How France Changed Foreign Policy

Security, Defense Discourse and Identity in NATO and Europe. How France Changed Foreign Policy

Analyzing changes in the role and place of NATO, European integration, and Franco-American relations in foreign policy discourse under Presidents Jacques Chirac and Nicolas Sarkozy, this book provides an original…
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Listening to All Voices: Designing Inclusive Discourse Analysis in U.S. Congressional Hearings on (Non)Intervention

Listening to All Voices: Designing Inclusive Discourse Analysis in U.S. Congressional Hearings on (Non)Intervention

How can researchers ensure that all voices are heard—especially in politically charged settings such as U.S. congressional hearings on military intervention? This case study outlines an inclusive discourse analysis of…
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Die NATO (2. Aufl.)

Die NATO (2. Aufl.)

Wichtiger denn je: Wie funktioniert kollektive Verteidigung in der transatlantischen Gemeinschaft? Seit 1949 organisiert die NATO die kollektive Verteidigung im nordatlantischen Raum. Nach drei Dekaden, die von Krisenmanagementmissionen und Anti-Terror-Kampf…
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List of Publications

Monographs

  • 2026, forthcoming. Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik. [Foreign and Security Policy]. Studienkurs Politikwissenschaft. Baden-Baden: Nomos. (with Andrea Gawrich)
  • 2025. Die NATO. Herausforderungen und Perspektiven kollektiver Verteidigung und Sicherheit im 21. Jahrhundert. München: UVK/UTB. [The North-Atlantic Treaty Organization. Challenges for and Perspectives on Collective Defense and Security in the 21st Century]. Second edition. https://www.narr.de/die-nato-46090/
  • 2020. Die NATO Institution, Politiken und Probleme kollektiver Verteidigung und Sicherheit von 1949 bis heute. München: UVK/UTB.
  • 2019. Security, Defense Discourse and Identity in NATO and Europe. How France Changed Foreign Policy. London und New York: Routledge. (https://www.routledge.com/Security-Defence-Discourse-and-Identity-in-NATO-and-Europe-How-France/Ostermann/p/book/9781138585409).

Edited Volumes

Special Issues

  • 2025. “Nichts steht mehr fest? Plurale Perspektiven auf Kontestation in der Politikwissenschaft.“Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen 32:2 (Forum). https://doi.org/10.5771/0946-7165-2025-2-144 (with Elena Dück and Laura von Allwörden).
  • 2024. “From Kabul to Kyiv: The Crisis of Liberal Interventionism and the Return of War”. Politics and Governance 12, https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.i375 (with Cornelia Baciu and Wolfgang Wagner)

Articles (peer-reviewed)

  • 2026, forthcoming. “Discourse in Foreign Policy Analysis: Exploring the State of Affairs and New Avenues for Research.” Journal of Language an Politics. (with Roxanna Sjöstedt)
  • 2026. “To Intervene or Not to Intervene: The Discursive Construction of Rogue State (Non-)Interventions in U.S. Congress.” Critical Studies on Security. https://doi.org/10.1080/21624887.2026.2700488. (with Nikolaos Lampas)
  • 2024. “The Party Politics of Military Intervention in Australia and Executive Prerogatives: Ideology Meets Strategy and Culture.” Foreign Policy Analysis 20:4, orae022. https://doi.org/10.1093/fpa/orae022.
  • 2024. “Introducing the Parliamentary Votes Database.” Journal of Peace Research, 61:2, 304-316. https://doi.org/10.1177/00223433221116655. (with Wolfgang Wagner)
  • 2024. “Ideological Talk, Strategic Vote: German Parties’ Positions on the Military Intervention in Afghanistan in Parliament.”  German Politics 33:4, 784-806. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644008.2022.2137497. (with Valerio Vignoli and Wolfgang Wagner) 
  • 2023: „Introducing the International Treaty Ratification Votes Database”. Foreign Policy Analysis 19:4, orad023. https://doi.org/10.1093/fpa/orad023. (with Wolfgang Wagner)
  • 2022. “Theorizing Populist Radical-Right Foreign Policy: Ideology and Party Positioning in France and Germany”. Foreign Policy Analysis 18:3, orac006. https://doi.org/10.1093/fpa/orac006. (with Bernhard Stahl)
  • 2018. “Party politics at the water’s edge: contestation of military operations in Europe”. European Political Science Review, Jg. 10:4, 537-563. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1755773918000097 (with Wolfgang Wagner, Anna Herranz-Surrallés and Juliet Kaarbo).
  • 2017. “The party politics of legislative-executive relations in security and defense policy”. West European Politics 40:1, 20-41. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2016.1240413) (with Wolfgang Wagner, Anna Herranz-Surrallés and Juliet Kaarbo).
  • 2017. “France’s Reluctant Parliamentarization of Military Deployments. The 2008 Constitutional Reform in Practice”. West European Politics 40:1, 101-118. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2016.1244751).
  • 2016. “The discursive construction of intervention: selves, democratic legacies, and Responsibility to Protect in French discourse on Libya”. European Security 25:1, 72-91. https://doi.org/10.1080/09662839.2015.1084617
  • 2015. “The end of ambivalence and the triumph of pragmatism: the renewal of Franco-British security and defence cooperation in the light of European and Atlantic defence policy traditions”. International Relations 29:3, 334-347. https://doi.org/10.1177/0047117815600937

Edited Volume Contributions 

  • 2025. “Populism, Parties, and Foreign Policy.” In Routledge Handbook of Populism and Foreign Policy, edited by David Cadier, Angelos Chryssogelos, and Sandra Destradi. London and New York: Routledge, 269-285.   
  • 2023. “Methods of Foreign Policy Analysis: Charting Ground, Engaging Traditions, and Opening Up Boundaries”. In Routledge Handbook of Foreign Policy Analysis Methods. Edited by Patrick Mello and Falk Ostermann. London and New York: Routledge, 3-18. (with Patrick Mello)
  • 2023. “Discourse Analysis and Discourse Theories”. InRoutledge Handbook of Foreign Policy Analysis Methods. Edited by Patrick Mello and Falk Ostermann. London and New York: Routledge, 101-116. (with Roxanna Sjöstedt)
  • 2023. “Cohesion Through Identity” InResearch Handbook on NATO, edited by Sebastian Mayer. Cheltenham and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 400-414.
  • 2021. “Voting on the Use of Armed Force: Challenges of Data Indexing, Classification, and the Value of a Comparative Agenda.” In Research Methods in Defence Studies. A Multidisciplinary Overview, edited by Delphine Deschaux-Dutard. London and New York: Routledge, 170-188 (with Florian Böller, Flemming Juul Christiansen, Fabrizio Coticchia, Daan Fonck, Anna Herranz-Surralles, Juliet Kaarbo, Kryštof Kučmáš, Michal Onderco, Rasmus Brun Pedersen, Tapio Raunio, Yf Reykers, Michal Smetana, Valerio Vignoli, and Wolfgang Wagner).
  • 2012. “In the Aftermath of French NATO Reintegration: The Normalization of French EU Policies in Security and Defense”. In Marian Majer, Robert Ondrejcsak and Vladimir Tarasovic (Hrsg.), Panorama of global security environment 2012 (Bratislava: Centre for European and North Atlantic Affairs), 215-225.

Other Academic Works 

  • 2026. “Listening to All Voices: Designing Inclusive Discourse Analysis in U.S. Congressional Hearings on (Non-)Intervention.” In Sage Research Methods: Inclusive Research Methodologies. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781036244736 (with Nikolaos Lampas).
  • 2025. “Nichts steht mehr fest? Plurale Perspektiven auf Kontestation in der Politikwissenschaft: Einleitung zum Forum.” Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen 32:2, 144-157, Introduction to the Forum of the same name, https://doi.org/10.5771/0946-7165-2025-2-144 (with Elena Dück and Laura von Allwörden).
  • 2024. “The Crisis of Liberal Interventionism and the Return of War”. Politics and Governance 12, Editorial to the Special Issue “From Kabul to Kyiv: The Crisis of Liberal Interventionism and the Return of War”, https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.7865 (with Cornelia Baciu and Wolfgang Wagner)
  • 2020. Written Evidence (TWP0002) for the House of Lords’ European Union Committee on Treaty scrutiny: working practices, 10 July 2020, https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/6540/html/ (with Julie Kaarbo, Benjamin Martill and Wolfgang Wagner).
  • 2019. “Applying Discourse Theory and Interpretive Policy Analysis on Foreign Policy: The Case of the French Engagement in the Libyan War.” SAGE Research Methods Cases. (http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781526478016).
  • 2017. Politicization, Party Politics and Military Missions: Deployment Votes in France, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom. Discussion Paper SP IV 2017-101, WZB Berlin Social Science Center (https://bibliothek.wzb.eu/pdf/2017/iv17-101.pdf) (with Wolfgang Wagner, Anna Herranz-Surrallés and Julie Kaarbo).

Datasets

  • 2022. International Treaty Ratification Votes Database. www.treatyratificationvotes.eu. Harvard Dataverse https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/ZRCTNC (with Florian Böller, Anna Herranz-Surrallés, Juliet Kaarbo, Philippe Lagassé, Benjamin Martill, Michal Onderco, Tapio Raunio, Özlem Terzi, Valerio Vignoli, and Wolfgang Wagner)
  • 2021. Parliamentary Deployment Votes Database Version 3. Harvard Dataverse. https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/LHYQFM (with Cornelia Baciu, Florian Böller, Dario Čepo, Flemming J. Christiansen, Fabrizio Coticchia, Daan Fonck, Anna Herranz-Surrallés, Juliet Kaarbo, Joo Hee Kim, Kryštof Kučmáš, Philippe Lagassé, Benjamin Martill, Kenneth McDonagh, Michal Onderco, Rasmus B. Pedersen, Tapio Raunio, Yf Reykers, Richard Sonneveld, Michal Smetana, Atsushi Tago, Özlem Terzi, Sigita Trainauskiene, Valerio Vignoli, and Wolfgang Wagner)
  • 2020. Parliamentary Deployment Vote Database Version 2. Harvard Dataverse. https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/XIMAAE (with Florian Böller, Flemming Christiansen, Fabrizio Coticchia, Daan Fonck, Anna Herranz-Surrallés, Juliet Kaarbo, Krystof Kucmas, Michal Onderco, Rasmus Pedersen, Tapio Raunio, Yf Reykers, Michal Smetana, Valerio Vignoli, and Wolfgang Wagner)
  • 2018. Parliamentary Deployment Vote Database. Harvard Dataverse. https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/60RZCC (with Wolfgang Wagner, Anna Herranz-Surrallés and Juliet Kaarbo)

Community-Oriented Publications