Realpolitik Returns to Berlin: The Bumpy Road from Soft to Hard Security.

Autor:	Moroff, Holger
Předmět:	CIVIL-military relations AGGRESSION (International law) ETHNIC cleansing RUSSIA-Ukraine Conflict 2014- GERMAN language
Zdroj:	German Politics & Society; Summer2024, Vol. 42 Issue 2, p121-133, 13p
Abstrakt:	"Never again" has been a mantra of German foreign policy since the end of World War II. Together with Ostpolitik it informs its approach toward the conflict in Ukraine. The discourse moved from "never again war originating from German soil" via justifying military interventions to prevent ethnic cleansing in the Balkans in 1998 with Joshka Fischer's injunction of "never again Auschwitz" to Olaf Scholz' programmatic 2023 speech invoking "never again war of aggression in Europe." This development is interpreted in the light of Realpolitik, providing the hard security means to defend the rule of law and democratic governance. External shocks have led Germany to expand its soft security arsenal as a civilian power and to embrace military means for liberal ends. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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