This text examines the Franco-German relationship in the EU in relation to different policy sectors. It assesses the nature and importance of the relationship for the policy process.

Regional organizations in Europe and East Asia are currently grappling with a striking number of essentially similar challenges. The long-term future, role and impact of organizations such as the EU and ASEAN may depend heavily on how well or badly they deal with complex and conflict-laden issues in the next few years.
This volume analyzes the historical development, current state and prospective future evolution of political integration in these two regions. The authors identify key variables that account for the contrasting political integration levels, demonstrating and explaining why...

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,...

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,...