Abstract
Domestic factors, though important, are not the only, or perhaps even deciding, ones which determine the course of West German foreign and security policy. The role of the United States as the main guarantor of West German security, superpower relations, Eastern European reforms, European Community (EC) integration, and Franco-German cooperation are significant external factors influencing West German foreign and security policy making. Of these factors, the pursuit of European unification, as found, for example, in the establishment of the EC has been given prominence both in the Basic Law and in the policies of West German governments since 1949. Indeed the EC has been instrumental in the reintegration of West Germany into the family of nations, and in the economic and political success of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG). It has played, and will continue to play, an important role in the process of German reunification and represents the long-term means for maintaining peace in Europe, and for achieving European-wide cooperation.1
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