Germany's Uncertain Power: Foreign Policy of the Berlin Republic (New Perspectives in German Studies)

After Berlin's refusal to back Washington in its policy in Iraq in 2003, German foreign policy has again become the subject of debate. How has German foreign policy changed in recent years? Where is German foreign policy headed now? This volume provides answers to those questions, based on careful analysis of recent developments in a range of key policy areas by an authoritative group of German and international scholars. Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 6 List of Tables and Figure......Page 8 Notes on Contributors......Page 9 List of Abbreviations......Page 14 Introduction......Page 18 Part I: Domestic and European Sources of German Foreign Policy......Page 30 1 The Polity of German Foreign Policy: Changes since Unification......Page 32 2 Adapting to Europe? German Foreign Policy, Domestic Constraints, and the Limitations of Europeanization since Unification......Page 46 Part II: Security Policy Issues: Between NATO and the European Union......Page 64 3 Germany and the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction......Page 66 4 Civilian Power under Stress: Germany, NATO, and the European Security and Defense Policy......Page 83 5 Normalization in Security Policy? Deployments of Bundeswehr Forces Abroad in the Era Schröder, 1998–2004......Page 96 Part III: Bilateralism and Multilateralism: European and Transatlantic Dimensions......Page 110 6 Germany’s New European Policy: Weaker, Leaner, Meaner......Page 112 7 The Franco–German Relationship, 1998–2005......Page 126 8 Parting Ways: The German–American Relationship after Iraq......Page 139 9 The Transatlantic Relationship: A View from Germany......Page 154 10 Pan-European Stability: Still a Key Task?......Page 169 Part IV: Foreign Economic Policies......Page 184 11 German Energy and Security Policy: Technical versus Political Modes of Intervention......Page 186 12 German Trade Policy: The Decline of Liberal Leadership......Page 202 13 Germany and the International Financial Order......Page 216 14 Germany’s International Environmental Policy......Page 231 Part V: The Outer Circle of German Foreign Policy......Page 248 15 Germany’s Development Policy since 1998......Page 250 16 Business As Usual: Red–Green Policies toward Pacific Asia......Page 264 17 Germany and the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict......Page 277 Conclusion: Uncertain Power—German Foreign Policy into the Twenty-First Century......Page 290 B......Page 304 D......Page 305 F......Page 306 G......Page 307 H......Page 308 L......Page 309 O......Page 310 R......Page 311 T......Page 312 Z......Page 313 This comprehensive, in-depth assessment of the German foreign policy record under the Red-Green government of Gerhard Schroder 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. 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 Schroder 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 This comprehensive, in-depth assessment of the German foreign policy record under the Red-Green government of Gerhard Schroeder 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. 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.