Title: Germany, the European Community and the Challenges of the End of the Cold War
Abstract: This chapter analyses the extent to which the end of the Cold War and the negotiation of the agreement on Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) within the Treaty on European Union (EU) exerted adaptational pressures on German foreign and security policy. It will demonstrate is that whilst the CFSP which emerged from the Intergovernmental Conference on Political Union (IGCPU) represented a significant step to formalise foreign and security policy co-operation within the EU, the impact of this new institution did not substantially affect the content or scope of German security policy. This can be explained by the nature of the CFSP as agreed upon at Maastricht which was broadly consistent with norms and policies shaping German foreign and security policy at the beginning of the 1990s. This analysis will also highlight the intensely interwoven negotiations concerning the post-Cold War security order on which Germany sought to place its imprint. What emerged within Germany was not only a debate concerning the future direction of German foreign and security policy at a time of euphoria, but also uncertainty, following the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
Publication Year: 2007
Publication Date: 2007-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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