Turn of the Times? Upheavals, Emotionalizations and (Re-)Polarizations of Geopolitical Discourses and Risk Imaginations in Germany in the Face of the Russian War against Ukraine

俄罗斯最近对乌克兰发动的战争，正迫使全球地缘政治想象发生剧变，这是自2001年9月11日以来世界从未见过的。拟议的研究项目从话语理论和经验的角度分析了战争如何改变地缘政治风险话语和改变政治辩论。以德国（主要焦点：联邦议院）（再）极化的政治话语为例，考察了三个相互关联的焦点。首先，该项目认为当前发生的话语（再）两极分化是一个学习“地缘政治档案”在当前危机期间地缘政治Leitbilder戏剧性转变中的作用的基本教训的机会。在实证上，将阐述德国地缘政治风险和联盟话语显著变化的轮廓。与此密切相关的是，第二个重点将研究集体的“情感政治”（Ahmed 2014[2004]），这种政治由于战争的特殊情况而使地缘政治认同结构两极分化或加剧。特别是，它侧重于地缘政治的友敌结构的情感负担，伴随着德国政治和选定的主流印刷媒体的战争观念（比较水平）。在此基础上，该项目的第三个重点考察了德国外交和安全政策领域的关键参与者如何将这些话语断裂和“情感地缘政治”视为对其政治主体性和决策可能性的强大约束。

The recent Russian war campaign against Ukraine is forcing a shake-up in global geopolitical imaginations the likes of which the world has not seen since September 11, 2001. The proposed research project analyzes how the war is shifting geopolitical risk discourses and changing political debates from a discourse-theoretical and empirical perspective. Using the example of (re-)polarizing political discourses in Germany (main focus: Bundestag), three interrelated foci are examined. First, the project considers the discursive (re-)polarizations currently taking place as an opportunity to learn fundamental lessons about the role of the 'archives of geopolitics' in a dramatic shift of geopolitical Leitbilder during a current crisis. Empirically, the contours of the significantly changing German geopolitical risk and alliance discourses will be elaborated. Closely related to this, the second focus will examine the collective "politics of emotion" (Ahmed 2014 [2004]) that polarize or sharpen geopolitical identity constructions due to the particular situation of war. In particular, it focuses on the emotional charges of geopolitical friend-foe constructions that accompany perceptions of war in German politics and selected mainstream print media (comparative level). On this basis, the project's third focus examines the ways in which key actors in the field of German foreign and security policy perceive these discursive ruptures and 'emotional geopolitics' as powerful constraints on their political subjectivities and decision-making possibilities.