The latter relates to contestation within political parties, from the public, but also—as a novel form of vertical role contestation—between the regional and federal level.
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The first empirical section examines the foreign policy preferences of the three parties before they entered the coalition and how they negotiated compromise in their coalition agreement.
The second empirical section draws on the analysis of 19 plenary debates and 30 motions that were related to the Russian war against Ukraine, highlighting evidence of horizontal role contestation between the parties.
The third empirical section examines vertical role contestation such as open letter initiatives and public rallies for and against supporting Ukraine militarily.
This is complemented by what I see as a new form of vertical role contestation - between the regional and federal level, as it happened after the #BSW's electoral successes in regional elections in Brandenburg, Thuringia, and Saxony.
The article is part of a special issue on party contestation of foreign policy, edited by @achryssogelos.bsky.social & Toby Greene, which emerged from an #EWIS workshop in Amsterdam in 2023.
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