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West German Foreign Policy: 1949-1979

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Westview Special Studies in West European Politics and Society

West German Foreign Policy: 1949-1979 edited by Wolfram F. Hanrieder

This collection of original papers by prominent political and academic figures from both sides of the Atlantic focuses on the political, economic, military-strategic, and domestic dimensions of West Germany's foreign policy.

The authors first consider the changing constraints and opportunities that have shaped West German foreign policy. Succeeding chapters examine Germany's relationship with the United States, the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and the Third World; the evolution and development of Germany's Eastern European policy; the role of Germany in a changing political, strategic, and economic environment; arms proliferation and control; and prospects for the future.

Wolfram F. Hanrieder is professor of political science at the University of California at Santa Barbara.

West German Foreign Policy: 1949-1979

edited by Wolfram F. Hanrieder

First published 1980 by Westview Press, Inc.

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Main entry under title:
West German foreign policy, 1949-1979.
(Westview special studies in West European politics and society)
Papers presented at a January 1979 conference sponsored by the Konrad Adenauer
Foundation and the University of California, Santa Barbara.
1. Germany, WestForeign relationsCongresses. I. Hanrieder, Wolfram F. II.
Konrad-AdenauerStiftung fr Politische Bildung und Studienfrderung. III. California.
University, Santa Barbara.
DD259.4.W426 327.43 79-18169

ISBN 13: 978-0-891-58579-4 (hbk)

Contents

, David Calleo

, Wolfram F. Hanrieder

, Manfred Wrner

, Catherine McArdle Kelleher

, Jan Reifenberg

, Martin J. Hillenbrand

, F. Roy Willis

, William G. Hyland

, Hans-Peter Schwarz

, Karl Kaiser

, Peter H. Merkl

, Ernst-Otto Czempiel

, Gerhard Zeitel

, Julia Dingwort-Nusseck

, J. Robert Schaetzel

, Hans J. Morgenthau

1. ii
2. iii
3. xiii

Guide

The essays in this collection were initially presented as papers at a conference held in Santa Barbara, California, January 4-6, 1979. The conference, intended to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the Federal Republic of Germany, was sponsored by the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung and the University of California, Santa Barbara. The financial support of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, which made it possible to bring the participants to Santa Barbara, is gratefully acknowledged. Special thanks are due to Mr. Larry Buel, then my assistant, for his untiring and cheerful labors before and during the conference.

Wolfram F. Hanrieder

David P. Galleo is professor of European studies and director of the European Studies Program, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, Washington, D.C.

Ernst-Otto Czempiel is professor of political science at the University of Frankfurt, West Germany.

Wolfram F. Hanrieder is professor of political science at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Martin J. Hillenbrand , formerly U.S. ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany, is currently director-general of the Atlantic Institute for International Affairs, Paris, and a consultant to the U.S. Department of State.

William G. Hyland is an associate in the office of Dr. Henry A. Kissinger and a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies at Georgetown University.

Karl Kaiser is director of the Research Institute of the German Society for Foreign Affairs, Bonn, and professor of political science at the University of Cologne, West Germany.

Catherine McArdle Kelleher is professor of political science at the Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver.

Peter Merkl is professor of political science at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Hans J. Morgenthau is professor of political science at the New School for Social Research, Albert A. Michelson Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and Modern History, Emeritus, at the University of Chicago, and Leonard Davis Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Emeritus, at City College of the City University of New York.

Julia Dingwort-Nusseck is president of the Landeszentralbank of Niedersachsen, West Germany.

Jan Reifenberg is political correspondent for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in Washington, D.C.

J. Robert Schaetzel is a former U.S. ambassador to the European Community.

Hans-Peter Schwarz is professor of political science at the University of Cologne, West Germany.

F. Roy Willis is professor of history at the University of California, Davis.

Manfred Wrner is chairman of the Armed Services Committee of the West German Bundestag.

Gerhard Zeitel is a member of the West German Bundestag and a professor of economics at the University of Mannheim.

West German Foreign Policy: 1949-1979

1
Germany and the Balance of Power

David Calleo

The modern history of all European nation-states has been bound intimately to the continent's balance of power. Germany's relation to that European balance has passed through three phases. In the early modern era, as Europe's great powers fought out their rivalries over a fragmented German nation, Germany was, in effect, the balance's principal victim. While Habsburg Spain was ascendant, Germany's division was essential to equilibrium. Hence, Germans suffered the protracted agony of the Thirty Years' War, ended by the Treaty of Westphalia that sealed Germany's failure to develop a centralized national state like France or Britain. With Spain's eclipse, Germany remained the principal continental battleground to check French power, until the Congress of Vienna established a new equilibrium.

Bismarck's creation of the imperial Reich opened a new role for Germany. Once consolidated and then united in "organic" alliance with Austria-Hungary, the German Reich, by its very existence, became a serious threat to the post-Napoleonic balance. Imperial Germans, indeed, came to reject that balance as obsolescent. Their reasoning was based on three major developments during the nineteenth century that, they believed, profoundly changed the framework of international equilibrium. These were the evolution of Britain into the world's first industrial, world-imperial power and the gradual consolidation of the Russian empire and the American Republic into modern, continental-sized nation-states. Henceforth, they maintained, balance would have to be achieved on a global rather than continental scale. And global equilibrium required German hegemony over Europe.

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