A Change of Course? German Foreign and Security Policy After Unification

Meiers, Franz-Josef

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“…Chancellor Schröder (1999: 70) was more outspoken in articulating Germany's emancipation from the past and was soon after his inauguration to declare that German foreign policy was to follow 'enlightened self-interest'. However, during the first four-year term of the Red-Green coalition, there was little in German foreign policy that could be seen as either 'red' or 'green' (Wood, 2002;Meiers, 2002;Marsh, 2002).…”

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German Foreign Policy and the War on Iraq: Anti-Americanism, Pacifism or Emancipation?

Forsberg

2005

Security Dialogue

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The clash between Berlin and Washington over the war on Iraq in 2002–03 came as a surprise to the community of scholars and analysts watching German foreign policy and transatlantic relations. Attempts to explain German behaviour have mostly focused on either the anti-American or the pacifist nature of German society. There is some relevance in these explanations, but they poorly explain the timing of the change, its sudden emergence and its focus on the Iraq issue. This article argues that the most important driving force behind the change was neither anti-Americanism nor pacifism, but rather Germany’s political emancipation. The Germans had been gradually growing into their role as a leading power in Europe that is willing to take on greater international responsibility. When Berlin felt that it was not consulted in the decisionmaking process, it reacted strongly. The question at stake was the nature of the world order and the relations of the USA to its allies, and no longer the single issue of Iraq.

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German Foreign Policy and the War on Iraq: Anti-Americanism, Pacifism or Emancipation?

Forsberg

2005

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“…in the Sh a DoW oF conServatiSm, 1990-97 After the election in December 1990, the conservative cdu/csu formed a government with the much smaller liberal Free Democratic Party. The coalition government's main foreign policy goal was to increase its leverage in international affairs without alienating its Western allies (Webber 2001). But the government also showed its increased will and capacity to pursue its own interests.…”

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Social Democracy After the Cold War

Schmidt¹

2012

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Entkernt sich der Leviathan?

Deitelhoff

Geis

2010

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Zusammenfassung:In Gestalt von Verteidigungs- und Militärpolitik wird die anhaltende Privatisierungs und Internationalisierung von sicherheitspolitik zum Motor konkreter transformationsprozesse. Wir kontrastieren zwei solcher transformationsprozesse miteinander, die umstrukturierung der Bundeswehr von einer Verteidigungsarmee zu einer Armee im Einsatz unter Vorzeichen der Internationalisierung und die Privatisierungsoffensive in den us-streitkräften, um herauszuarbeiten, welche Konsequenzen sich daraus für die staatliche Organisation von sicherheits-und Verteidigungspolitik ergeben. Von einer Entkernung oder nachhaltigen schwächung des staatlichen Gewaltmonopols kann in beiden zunächst konträr erscheinenden transformationsprojekten nicht die Rede sein. Allerdings verbirgt sich hinter dem Diskurs von Effizienz und Effektivitäts-steigerung auch eine moderne Herrschaftstechnik des staates, die die sukzessive schwächung der demokratischen und rechtlichen fesseln des Gewaltmonopols zur folge hat.Abstract: since the 1990s, changes in the area of security have triggered a number of ongoing military transformations in keeping with the broad trends of internationalization and privatization we currently experience. We compare two concrete transformation processes in liberal democracies to assess their effects on the state security and defence policy, namely, reform of the German armed forces into an 'army of operations' and increased contracting of private military and security companies by the us military. Contrary to what might be expected, neither privatization nor internationalization directly undermine or weaken the state's monopoly on the use of force. However, under the guise of a discourse on efficiency and effectiveness, internationalization and privatization have the joint effect of weakening democratic and legal control over the state's monopoly on the use of force, in the long run.

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A Change of Course? German Foreign and Security Policy After Unification

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German Foreign Policy and the War on Iraq: Anti-Americanism, Pacifism or Emancipation?

German Foreign Policy and the War on Iraq: Anti-Americanism, Pacifism or Emancipation?

Social Democracy After the Cold War

Entkernt sich der Leviathan?

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