Multilateralism, German Foreign Policy and Central Europe / Edition 1

by Claus Hofhansel

Overview

How does the foreign policy of reunified Germany differ from the West German strong commitment to multilateralism?

Multilateralism, German Foreign Policy and Central Europe focuses on German relations with the Czech Republic and Poland in order to investigate the changes and continuities in German foreign policy following the Cold War. After a theoretical introduction and an overview of multilateralism in German foreign policy. This book analyzes the 'high politics' of German foreign policy towards Czechoslovakia/the Czech Republic and Poland, focusing on the main diplomatic agreements negotiated after 1945. The next two chapters address the legacy of the past in contemporary Czech-German and Polish-German relations, including the compensation for victims of the Nazi regimes and the rights of ethnic German minorities. Then the book shifts its emphasis to the future of German relations with its eastern neighbours, and EU enlargement in particular.
This scholarly volume will interest all students and researchers of German foreign policy and Central European politics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415364065
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/18/2005
Series:	Routledge Advances in European Politics , #26
Pages:	168
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Explaining support for multilateralism; Chapter 2 German multilateralism in East and West; Chapter 3 From the “policy of movement” toward reconciliation; Chapter 4 The diplomacy of compensation for Eastern European victims of Nazi crimes; Chapter 5 German minorities in Poland and the Czech Republic; Chapter 6 Germany and the eastern enlargement of the EU; Chapter 7 Conclusion;