German Foreign Policy

The US-Russian security 'reset': implications for Central-Eastern Europe and Germany

by Nik Hynek

Lead co-author (45% contribution), published in "European Security", Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 263-285. ISSN 0966-2839

Germany: From advocate to bystander – and back?

by Bettina Trueb

Forthcoming (2012) in: Ruano, Lorena (ed.): Europeanization and national foreign policies towards Latin America. London: Routledge

Zwischen Antizionismus und Staatsräson. Die außenpolitische Positionierung der LINKEN am Beispiel der Israel-Politik.

by Robert Friebe

Boost or Backlash? EU Member States and the EU's Latin America Policy in the Post-Lisbon Era

by Bettina Trueb

in: PJ Cardwell (2012): EU External Relations Law and Policy in the post-Lisbon Era. The Hague: TMC Asser Press/Springer, pp. 265-286

„Zu den deutschen Reaktionen auf die russischen Revolutionen von 1917 – Einblicke in Politik und Presse“

by John Andreas Fuchs

In: Forum für osteuropäische Ideen- und Zeitgeschichte 1/2008, S. 29-45

"Germany and the shaping of the European Security and Defence Policy, Back to Power?", Les Cahiers d'Histoire Immédiate, N°35, Fall 2009 (in French).

by Olivier Schmitt

The Map of Africa Lies in Germany: The Two Germanys and Their Struggles for Recognition in Africa, 1955-1966.

by Bernhard Blumenau

published in: Working Papers in International History, no. 10/ November 2011.

This paper assesses the Africa policies of West and East Germany between 1955 and 1966. Special attention will be paid... more This paper assesses the Africa policies of West and East Germany between 1955 and 1966. Special attention will be paid to the central motivation of Deutschlandpolitik (Germany Policy) for the two Germanys’ relations with Africa. Moreover, this paper analyzes the means that both German states used to buy off African states and to convince them subscribe to the respective German state’s stance on the German Question. As West Germany did not recognize East Germany until 1972, Bonn’s Africa policy was to ensure the continued non‐recognition of the East German state by Third World countries and to support West Germany’s sole representation claim. Consequently, East Berlin wanted to achieve international recognition through diplomatic relations with African states. Both Germanys used financial and economic incentives as well as propaganda warfare and knowledge transfer to win over the Africans. Yet that was very costly and the heavy impact of the German Question on both Germanys’ Africa policies increasingly became an obstacle to better relations with the emerging Third World.

Germany and the CFSP: The Accidental Leader?

by Nick Wright

Paper prepared for the 37th Annual Conference of the
International Association for the Study of German Politics,
London, United Kingdom, 16th-17th May, 2011
DRAFT PAPER - NOT TO BE QUOTED OR CIRCULATED

The Common Foreign and Security Policy has been described as the essential element in German foreign policy, but to... more The Common Foreign and Security Policy has been described as the essential element in German foreign policy, but to what extent are the objectives pursued through the CFSP and the choices made by the Member States affected and even determined by the EU’s largest member? Examining the trajectory of change in post-unification German foreign and security policy that has seen it move from “rehabilitation to emancipation”, this paper argues that Germany has reached a new stage in its evolution: that of emergent or “accidental” leadership. The paper suggests four different forms through which this is exercised: shared leadership with key partners; leadership by example, whereby it acts as a hub around which other states coalesce; leadership through mediation, whereby it acts as a bridge, often but not exclusively between France and the United Kingdom; and direct leadership, whereby when necessary it will act to support or promote the vital or foundational elements of its foreign policy. Overall, the paper contends that while the first three leadership forms capture the majority of its leadership inputs, in the current economic and foreign policy environment it is likely that there will be more occasions where it will go down the path of direct leadership.

"Großmächtiges Deutschland?" Debatte in der Zeitschrift "WeltTrends" Hefte 42-47 (2004-2005).

by Gunther Hellmann

Normativ abgerüstet, aber selbstbewusst. Deutsche Außenpolitik im 20. Jahr nach der Vereinigung (Gekürzte und von der Redaktion bearbeitete Fassungen dieses Beitrags erscheinen als "Online"-Beitrag der Zeitschrift "Internationale Politik" (Oktober 2010) http://www.internationalepolitik.de/2010/10/01/normativ-nachrusten/ sowie in englischer Übersetzung in der Zeitschrift "IP Global Edition" (Heft 3/2011, S. 45-51).

by Gunther Hellmann

Berlins Große Politik im Fall Libyen, in: WeltTrends, Heft 80, September/Oktober 2011, 19-22.

by Gunther Hellmann

Das neue Selbstbewusstsein deutscher Außenpolitik und die veränderten Standards der Angemessenheit, in: Jäger, Thomas/Höse, Alexander/Oppermann, Kai (Hrsg)., Deutsche Außenpolitik (2. erw. Auflage), Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaft 2011, 735-758.

by Gunther Hellmann

De‐Europeanization by Default? Germany's EU Policy in Defense and Asylum

by Gunther Hellmann

Germany and the use of military force:'total war', the'culture of restraint' and the quest for normality

by Gunther Hellmann

„Selbstbewusst“ und „stolz“. Das außenpolitische Vokabular der Berliner Republik als Fährte einer Neuorientierung, in: Politische Vierteljahresschrift 48: 4 (2007), 650-679 (with Christian Weber, Frank Sauer und Sonja Schirmbeck).

by Gunther Hellmann

IR/Foreign Policy Theory and German Foreign Policy, Journal of International Relations and Development 12:3 (2009), 251-256.

by Gunther Hellmann

Goodbye Bismarck? The Foreign Policy of Contemporary Germany, in: Mershon International Studies Review 40: 1 (1996), 1-39.

by Gunther Hellmann

Fatal Attraction? German Foreign Policy and IR/Foreign Policy Theory, in: Journal of International Relations and Development 12:3 (2009), 257–292.

by Gunther Hellmann

Normatively Disarmed, but Self-Confident. German Foreign Policy 20 Years after Re-unification, in: Internationale Politik (Global Edition), 3 (2011): 45-51.

by Gunther Hellmann

The Sirens of Power and German Foreign Policy: Who Is Listening? in: German Politics, 6: 2 (1997), 29-57.

by Gunther Hellmann