Impact and Implications (1): Milieu Goals and Alliance Politics

Abstract

The differences between France and Germany’s historically rooted domestic constructions of role and purpose helped to shape frequently diverging French and German interests and policies across security issue areas. Security policy, generally, involves goals and actions in various political domains through which states seek to enhance or provide for their security in a potentially dangerous world. Policies may range from the broad and general—such as attempts to shape or influence the international milieu and its institutional and organizational form—to comparatively specific and delimited policies regarding arms production or export. In order to provide an overview of the effects of historical domestic construction on a range of security areas, this book differentiates among milieu goals and international institutional orders; alliances and alliance politics; nuclear deterrence force; overall force structures; mission definition and deployment; arms procurement, arms production, and arms industry; and arms export.