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This is the first attempt of its kind to analyse foreign policymaking in reunified Germany. The contributors cover all actors and institutions that influence foreign policy directly or indirectly, taking into account modern Germany's wider foreign relations. 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 Länder 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 twenty-first century.
List of contents
List of Tables List of Figures Notes on the Contributors Preface List of Abbreviations PART I: INTRODUCTION Academic Research and Foreign Policy-Making; W.D.Eberwein & K.Kaiser PART II: INSTITUTIONS OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT Traditional Institutions of Foreign Policy; D.Siwert-Probst The 'Foreign Policies' of Specialized Ministries; L.Andreae & K.Kaiser The Federal Intelligence Service and Foreign-Policy Decision-Making; H.G.Wieck New Challenges for the Foreign Service; H.F.von Ploetz PART III: CROSS-SECTIONAL TOPICS AND FOREIGN POLICY-MAKING National Decision-Making Structures for German European Policy; W.Hoyer Security Policy: National Structures and Multilateral Integration; L.Rühl The Formulation of Economic Policy within the Context of Increasing International Integration ; H.D.Westerhoff Decision-Making in Environmental Foreign Policy; W.Fischer & P.Holtrup PART IV: POLITICAL SYSTEM, SOCIETY AND FOREIGN POLICY The Role of the Bundestag in German Foreign Policy; J.Krause External Representation of German Länder Interests; M.Knodt Foreign-Policy Influence and Transnational Relations of Political Parties; S.Bartsch Political Foundations: Linking the Worlds of Foreign Policy and Transnationalism; S.Bartsch Societal Intermediary Organizations; K.Kaiser & M.Mildenberger Mass Media, Public Opinion and Foreign Policy; F.Brettschneider Public Attitudes and Elite Attitudes: Towards a New Foreign-Policy Consensus?; C.Holst Organized Interests and Foreign Policy; J.Hartmann Policy Advice and Foreign Policy-Making; M.Mols PART V: CONCLUSION Precarious Power: Germany at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century; G.Hellman Index
About the author
LISETTE ANDREAE Research Fellow University of Bonn
SEBASTIAN BARTSCH Postdoctoral Fellow, European University Institute, Florence
FRANK BRETTSCHNEIDER Assistant Professor, University of Stuttgart
WOLFGANG FISCHER Senior Research, Research Centre Jülich
JÜRGEN HARTMANN Professor of Political Science, University of the Federal Armed Forces, Hamburg
GUNTHER HELLMAN Professor of Political Science, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University and Director, Research Group on International Organizations, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt
PETRA HOLTRUP Research Scholar, Public Policy Research Centre, University of Colorado, Boulder
CHRISTIAN HOLST Director, Political and Social Research, Market Research Institute, INRA, Deutschland, Mölln
WERNER HOYER Member of the German Bundestag
MICHÉLE KNODT Research Assistant, Faculty of Social Sciences, Mannheim University
JOACHIM KRAUSE Deputy Director, Research Institute of the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), Berlin
MARKUS MILDENBURGER Senior Research Fellow, German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), Berlin
MANFRED MOLS Professor of Political Science, Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz
HANS-FRIEDRICH VON PLOETZ Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Court of St James's, London
LOTHAR RÜHL Professor of International Relations, University of Cologne
JUDITH SIWERT-PROBST Research Fellow, University of Bonn
HORST-DIETER WESTERHOFF Head of Department, Federal Chancellery and Professor of Statistics,University of Essen
HANS-GEORG WIECK Head of OSCE Advisory and Monitoring Group, Belarus, Minsk
Summary
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.
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'...the book will be an invaluable reference-point for anyone wanting to understand how the foreign policy processes of Germany actually work...' - Roger Morgan, European University Institute, Florence, Italy
