Les deux tentations de la politique extérieure allemande, de Bismarck à nos jours

Abstract

The tow temptations of German foreign policy since Bismarck, Klaus-Jürgen Müller. Since the formation of the Reich in 1871, Germany has wavered between the solitary and often aggressive assertion of her own power and a policy of privileged alliance. Bismarck himself tried out each of the alternatives. From Caprivi to Hitler, from Ludendorff to Stresemann, the ambivalence remained, until Adenauer's 1949 decision which hooked Germany to western Europe and the Atlantic alliance. In 1990, this policy is not challenged despite the accelerated progress of the unity of the two Germanys. A choice between a German Europe and a European Germany will not be necessary.