The Evolution of the German stance towards European security

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Çiyan, Deniz

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This thesis seeks to depict the German stance towards European security in the post-Cold War era. It attempts to portray the continuity and change in Germany’s policies towards the maintenance of European security first, by specifying the differences between the Cold War and the post-Cold War era, and second, within the years after the reunification of the two German states. This is examined in the light of the main developments in the international level, the European Union (EU) level and the German domestic level. These include on the international level the War in Kosovo, the Afghanistan intervention and the Iraq War; on the European Union level the EU treaties up until the Treaty of Lisbon and the developments on the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP); and lastly on the German domestic level the 1994 and 2006 Weißbuch (White Paper), which are official documents published by the German Ministry of Defence. This thesis indicates the change in Germany’s European security perception after the reunification towards a new and different sort of assertiveness. It is argued that this assertiveness invigorates within a European Germany.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/21837

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D. Çiyan, “The Evolution of the German stance towards European security,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2012.