Abstract
Can German foreign policy still be understood as one approximating the foreign policy of an ideal type of civilian power? This article discusses recent efforts to offer alternative characterisations, such as ‘reflective’, ‘shaping’, or ‘geo-economic’ power and concludes that ‘civilian power’ may still offer the best fit to understand German foreign policy. Its problem may not consist so much in a shift towards a different trajectory and destination but the hollowing out of its existing foreign policy role concept.
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