Germany's New Foreign Policy. Decision-Making in an Interdependent World (New Perspectives in German Studies)

Posted on 2001-08-18.

von Wolf-Dieter Eberwein und Karl Kaiser (Hrsg.)

This title attempts to analyze foreign policy-making in re-unified Germany. The contributors cover all actors and institutions that influence foreign policy directly or indirectly, taking into account modern Germany's wider foreign relations.

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To this end, they examine not only classical foreign policy institutions like the Chancellery, Foreign Office and Ministry of Defence, but also other organisations such as specialised ministries, the Lander Parliament, political parties, NGOs, and the media. Built on the insights of practical experience in diplomacy, administration and Parliament as well as academic research, this volume offers an invaluable guide to German foreign policy since reunification and projects its future development at the dawn of the 21st century.

The editor

Karl Kaiser is Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Bonn and Director of the Research Institute of the German Council on Foreign Relations, Berlin.

Ordering information

320 Seiten
Oktober 2001
ISBN: 0333919637
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Contents

List of Figures

xii

List of Tables

xii

Preface

xiii

Notes on the Contributors

xv

List of Abbreviations

xvii

 

 

Part One: Introduction

 

1. Academic Research and Foreign Policy-Making
(Wolf-Dieter Eberwein and Karl Kaiser)

3

 

 

Part Two: Institutions of the Federal Government

 

2. Traditional Institutions of Foreign Policy
(Judith Siwert-Probst)

19

3. The 'Foreign Policies' of Specialized Ministries
(Lisette Andreae and Karl Kaiser)

38

4. The Federal Intelligence Service and Foreign-Policy Decision-Making
(Hans-Georg Wieck)

58

5. New Challenges for the Foreign Service
(Hans-Friedrich von Ploetz)

70

 

 

Part Three: Cross-sectional Topics and Foreign Policy-Making

 

6. National Decision-Making Structures for German European Policy
(Werner Hoyer)

89

7. Security Policy: National Structures and Multilateral Integration
(Lothar Rühl)

102

8. The Formulation of Economic Policy within the Context of Increasing International Integration
(Horst-Dieter Westerhoff)

117

9. Decision-Making in Environmental Foreign Policy
Ê(Wolfgang Fischer and Petra Holtrup)

139

 

 

Part Four: Political System, Society and Foreign Policy

 

10. The Role of the Bundestag in German Foreign Policy
(Joachim Krause)

157

11. External Representation of German LŠnder Interests (Michèle Knodt)

173

12. Foreign-Policy Influence and Transnational Relations of Political Parties
(Sebastian Bartsch)

189

13. Political Foundations: Linking the Worlds of Foreign Policy and Transnationalism
(Sebastian Bartsch)

206

14. Societal Intermediary Organizations
(Karl Kaiser and Markus Mildenberger)

220

15. Mass Media, Public Opinion and Foreign Policy
(Frank Brettschneider)

238

16. Public Attitudes and Elite Attitudes: Towards a New Foreign-Policy Consensus?
(Christian Holst)

251

17. Organized Interests and Foreign Policy
(Jürgen Hartmann)

264

18. Policy Advice and Foreign Policy-Making
(Manfred Mols)

280

 

 

Part Five: Conclusion

 

19. Precarious Power: Germany at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century (Gunther Hellmann)

293

   

Index

312

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