German Foreign and Defence Policy after Unification

Abstract

Part 1 The changing international context: beyond Yalta - basic features of the new order decline of American hegemony versus normalization Western European integration after the Iron Curtain challenges and challengers. Part 2 Germany in the international system: basic decisions I - integration into the West and reunification basic decisions II - Ostpolitik and economic expansion. Part 3 Conservative foreign and defence policy: an attempted about-turn, 1982-1987 building a world political power the policy of West-Europeanization partner in leadership - the United States new roles for NATO and the Bundeswehr Eastern Europe - from enemy to periphery strands of security thinking within the CDU Bavarian Conservatives (CSU) and their foreign policy. Part 4 The FDP's security policy: origins of Genscherism the policy of responsibilty before and after unification Western security and pan-European perspectives Germany, Europe and the New World Order. Part 5 Rethinking social democratic security concepts: from Detente to Common Security beyond Ostpolitik civilizing the conflicts an Atlanto-Eurasian zone of demilitarization the United States of Europe global representatives strands of security thinking within the SPD. Part 6 Alternatives to realism or alternate realities?: post-industrialism and peace - Die Gruenen PDS - anti-imperialism in one country. Part 7 Basic decision III - conclusions for the 1990s.