The New Germany in a New Europe -- The Global Dimension

Abstract

Since German reunification on October 3, 1990, one fact has emerged: Germany is Europe's local superpower. Despite the economic and social problems brought on the meshing of the two very different societies of the east and west, Germany has not faltered. The demise of the Soviet Union and the chaos encompassing the Commonwealth of Independence States has left a political vacuum on the European continent. Germany, under the leadership of Chancellor Helmut Kohl and Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher, has shown itself both capable of the determined to step in and assume a position of leadership. Germany displayed its new political confidence most clearly in the decision to recognize Croatia and Slovenia in January 1992, against the objections of the United States and a number of fellow European Community (EC) members. The Germans, however, refused to be dissuaded from what they saw as the only way to end the bloodshed in what formally Yugoslavia. The U.S. and the other EC nations reluctantly followed suit and recognized both Croatia and Slovenia.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1992
Accession Number
ADA276850

Entities

People

  • David L. Sonnenberg

Organizations

  • Dwight D. Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Counter WMD
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Cold War
  • Commerce
  • Eastern Europe
  • Economic Systems
  • European Communities
  • Germany
  • International Law
  • International Relations
  • Investments
  • Market Economy
  • National Security
  • Treaties
  • United States
  • Ussr
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare
  • Western Europe

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union
  • European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP).
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.