The foreign policy of the Berlin Republic has begun to depart from its previous trajectory as a "civilian power", but to what extent and how it has changed is hotly debated. Is Germany in danger of becoming a problem for European stability? If so, how and why? This volume, prepared by a team of leading German and international experts, analyzes the foreign policy record of the Red-Green coalition government of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer to assess the extent of foreign policy continuity and the scope and direction of change. Using a common framework of analysis, the authors conclude that Germany has once more become an "uncertain power". Since about the mid-1990s, German power and influence in European and international relations have been diminishing, rather than growing - in part, because German foreign policy has become uncertain of its own purpose.
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
HANNS W. MAULL is one of Germany's best known foreign policy experts. He holds the Chair for Foreign Policy and International Relations at the University of Trier, Germany and serves on the scientific advisory board of major German foreign policy think tanks. His previous positions include research and academic positions at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London and the Johns Hopkins University Bologna Centre. He has published numerous books in English and German and articles in many leading foreign affairs journals in English, German, French, Italian, Russian and Japanese. Previous book publications include Europe and the Asia Pacific (co-edited with Gerald Segal and Jusuf Wanandi) and Deutschland im Abseits? Rot-grüne Außenpolitik 1998-2003 (co-edited with S. Harnisch and C. Grund).
Description
The foreign policy of the Berlin Republic has begun to depart from its previous trajectory as a "civilian power", but to what extent and how it has changed is hotly debated. Is Germany in danger of becoming a problem for European stability? If so, how and why? This volume, prepared by a team of leading German and international experts, analyzes the foreign policy record of the Red-Green coalition government of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer to assess the extent of foreign policy continuity and the scope and direction of change. Using a common framework of analysis, the authors conclude that Germany has once more become an "uncertain power". Since about the mid-1990s, German power and influence in European and international relations have been diminishing, rather than growing - in part, because German foreign policy has become uncertain of its own purpose.
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
Authors
HANNS W. MAULL is one of Germany's best known foreign policy experts. He holds the Chair for Foreign Policy and International Relations at the University of Trier, Germany and serves on the scientific advisory board of major German foreign policy think tanks. His previous positions include research and academic positions at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London and the Johns Hopkins University Bologna Centre. He has published numerous books in English and German and articles in many leading foreign affairs journals in English, German, French, Italian, Russian and Japanese. Previous book publications include Europe and the Asia Pacific (co-edited with Gerald Segal and Jusuf Wanandi) and Deutschland im Abseits? Rot-grüne Außenpolitik 1998-2003 (co-edited with S. Harnisch and C. Grund).
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