German Foreign Policy : : Navigating a New Era / / Scott Erb.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Erb, Scott,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)

Despite an array of predictions that Germany's foreign policy would be unable to adapt easily to the postunification, post–Cold War environment, it has in fact remained effective, even as it evolves in response to myriad challenges. Scott Erb analyzes German policy, with an emphasis on the transitions from 1980 to the present. Erb argues that Germany's success in dealing with a rapidly changing world rests on principles of multilateralism and cooperative institution building developed during the Cold War. These principles are especially well suited now, he finds, as interdependence and turbulence bring traditional notions of sovereignty and self-interest into question. Germany, he concludes, offers a sound model of foreign policy in an age of globalization.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. The Puzzle of German Foreign Policy -- 2. The Double Consensus: West German Foreign Policy, 1945–1980 -- 3. Missiles and Protests: The Early 1980s -- 4. Uniting Germany and Ending the Cold War, 1985–1990 -- 5. Uniting Europe: Germany and Integration, 1985–2002 -- 6. Security and Conflict After the Cold War: From Iraq to Macedonia -- 7. Terrorism and German Foreign Policy at the Turn of the Century -- 8. Foreign Policy in an Era of Globalization: The German Model -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Book