Germany's Uncertain Power: Foreign Policy of the Berlin Republic

by H. Maull (Editor)

Overview

This comprehensive, in-depth assessment of the German foreign policy record under the Red-Green government of Gerhard Schröder and Joschka Fischer from 1998 to 2005, produced by a team of German and international experts, explores the idea of continuity and the sources, depths and directions of German foreign policy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781403946621
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/26/2006
Series:	New Perspectives in German Political Studies
Edition description:	2006
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

MARTIN BECK Senior Fellow, German Institute for Middle East Studies and Senior Lecturer, Hamburg University, Germany ANDREAS FALKE Professor of International Studies, Business and Economics School, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany JÖRN-CARSTEN GOTTWALD Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Trier, Germany SEBASTIAN HARNISCH Associate Professor of International Relations, University of Trier, Germany GÜNTER JOETZE Teaches and publishes widely on issues of conflict prevention, regional stability, and conflict diplomacy HANS W. MAULL Professor of Foreign Policy and International Relations, University of Trier, Germany ALISTER MISKIMMON Lecturer in European Politics and International Relations, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK PETER MOLT Honorary Professor for International Relations and Government, University of Trier, Germany FRIEDMANN MÜLLER Chairman of the Research Group 'Global Issues', German Institute of International and Security Affairs(SWP), Berlin, Germany HARALD MÜLLER Director of Peace Research Institute, Frankfurt and Professor for International Relations, Frankfurt University, Germany MARCO OVERHAUS Research Assistant and Chair of Foreign Policy and International Relations, University of Trier, Germany WILLIAM E. PATERSON Chairman of the German British Forum and Emeritus Director of the Institute for German Studies, University of Birmingham, UK AUGUST PRADETTO Professor of Political Science, Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg, Germany PETER RUDOLF Senior Research Associate, German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Berlin, Germany SIEGFRIED SCHIEDER Lecturer and Research Associate in International Relations, University of Trier, Germany DETLEF F. SPRINZ Senior Fellow, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany HANS STARK Research Fellow and Lecturer in Contemporary History and European Studies, University of Sorbonne, Paris, France STEPHEN F. SZABO Professor of European Studies, ThePaul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University, Washington D.C., USA MARTIN WAGENER Lecturer in International Relations and Foreign Policy, University of Trier, Germany REINHARD WOLF Professor of International Politics and Area Studies, University of Greifswald, Germany.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures Notes on Contributors List of Abbreviations Introduction; H.W.Maull PART I: DOMESTIC AND EUROPEAN SOURCES OF GERMAN FOREIGN POLICY The Polity of German Foreign Policy: Changes since Unification; A.Pradetto Adapting to Europe? German Foreign Policy, Domestic Constraints, and the Limitations of Europeanization since Unification; A.Miskimmon & W.E.Paterson PART II: SECURITY POLICY ISSUES: BETWEEN NATO AND THE EUROPEAN UNION Germany and the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction; H.Müller Civilian Power under Stress: Germany, NATO, and the European Security and Defence Policy; M.Overhaus Normalization in Security Policy? Deployments of Bundeswehr Forces Abroad in the Schröder Era, 1998-2005; M.Wagener PART III: BILATERALISM AND MULTILATERALISM: EUROPEAN AND TRANSATLANTIC DIMENSIONS Germany's New European Policy: Weaker, Leaner, Meaner; S.Harnisch & S.Schieder The Franco-German Relationship, 1998-2005; H.Stark Parting Ways: The German-American Relationship after Iraq; S.F.Szabo The Transatlantic Relationship: A View from Germany; P.Rudolf Pan-European Stability: Still a Key Task?; G.Joetze PART IV: FOREIGN ECONOMIC POLICIES German Energy and Security Policy: Technical versus Political Modes of Intervention; F.Müller German Trade Policy: The Decline of Liberal Leadership; A.Falke Germany and the International Financial Order; R.Wolf Germany's International Environmental Policies: D.F.Sprinz PART V: THE OUTER CIRCLE OF GERMAN FOREIGN POLICY Germany's Development Policy since 1998; P.Molt Business as Usual: Red-Green Coalition Policies towards Pacific Asia; J-C.Gottwald Germany and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict; M.Beck Conclusion: Uncertain Power - German Foreign Policy into the Twenty-First Century; H.W.Maull Index