New Europe, New Germany, Old Foreign Policy?: German Foreign Policy Since Unification

ISBN-13: 9780714651729 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 232 str.

Douglas Webber

Opis

When Germany was unified and the Cold War in Europe ended in 1990, there were numerous predictions that the new Germany would pursue a quite different foreign policy to that which was practised in the old Federal Republic. The new Germany would be less inhibited in the exercise of power and pursuit of its putative national interests, less inclined to support further European integration and less multilateralist. Germany, in short, would become more like a normal Great Power. The contributions to this volume, from scholars and analyses of German foreign policy in Germany, the USA, France, Britain, Poland and Belgium, analyze how and the extent to which German foreign and European policy has changed since German unification. In general, they find that there is greater continuity than change in post-unification German policy. In particular, German foreign policy has retained its strong multilateral orientation - a commitment to developing and preserving strong regional and international organizations and pursuing German interests in and through them.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Introduction: German European and Foreign Policy Before and After Unification, DOUGLAS WEBBER; Chapter 2 Germany and the Kosovo War: Still a Civilian Power?, ADRIAN HYDE-PRICE; Chapter 3 Change and Continuity in Post-Unification German Foreign Policy, SEBASTIAN HARNISCH; Chapter 4 Germany and the Use of Military Force: ‘Total War’, the ‘Culture of Restraint’ and the Quest for Normality, RAINER BAUMANN, GUNTHER HELLMANN; Chapter 5 Recasting the Security Bargains: Germany, European Security Policy and the Transatlantic Relationship, ALISTER JOHN MISKIMMON; Chapter 6 Germany in Europe: Return of the Nightmare or Towards an Engaged Germany in a New Europe?, WOLFGANG WESSELS; Chapter 7 Germany’s Power and the Weakening of States in a Globalised World: Deconstructing a Paradox, ANNE-MARIE LE GLOANNEC; Chapter 8 Germany, Quo Vadis? A View from the Diplomatic World, PHILIPPE DE SCHOUTHEETE; Chapter 9 Germany, Quo Vadis? A View from Poland, JERZY KRANZ; Chapter 10 German Foreign Policy and Transatlantic Relations since Unification, ANDREW DENISON; Chapter 11 The European Policy-Making Machinery in the Berlin Republic: Hindrance or Handmaiden?, SIMON BULMER, ANDREAS MAURER, WILLIAM PATERSON;

O autorze

Douglas Webber