‘Condemned forever to becoming and never to being’? The Weise Commission and German Military Isomorphism

Foreign policy analysis, globalisation and non-state actors: state-centric after all?

“…However, governments increasingly establish independent committees to evaluate policies, even in security and defence. For instance, in 2010 the German government established a commission (not the first one) to evaluate the necessity and possibilities for the reform of its armed forces, the so-called 'Weise Commission' (see Dyson 2011), which consisted of government officials as well as representatives of the private sector. Similarly, the British government has relied on external expertise to evaluate for instance its so-called Conflict Prevention Pools, the main instrument to facilitate inter-agency coordination in conflict prevention (see Austin et al 2004).…”