De-Europeanization by Default? Germany's EU Policy in Defense and Asylum
| Autor: | Benjamin Herborth, Gunther Hellmann, Rainer Baumann, Monika Bösche, Wolfgang Wagner |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
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Institutionalisation
Refugee language.human_language German Foreign policy Political science Political economy Political Science and International Relations European integration Development economics language media_common.cataloged_instance Foreign policy analysis Feature integration theory European union media_common |
| Zdroj: | Foreign Policy Analysis. 1:143-164 |
| ISSN: | 1743-8586 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.1743-8594.2005.00007.x |
| Popis: | Since the end of the Cold War and unification, Germany's policy toward and within the European Union (EU) has undergone significant changes. Once a model “Europeanist,” Germany has become increasingly reluctant to support the progressive implementation of key projects of European integration. Neither an instance of a planned strategic change nor a result of an inevitable adaptation to structural shifts at the systemic level, these changes in German foreign policy, incremental yet significant as they are, evade both deterministic and voluntaristic accounts of foreign policy change. Integrating insights from foreign policy analysis, integration theory, and social theory, the article develops an innovative framework for analysis that is applied to Germany's European asylum and refugee policy as well as its security and defense policy. The origins of both policy fields at the European level can be traced back to initiatives that were supported by or even originated in Germany. However, as the 1990s progressed Germany increasingly obstructed further institutionalization. While in the field of asylum and refugee policy the Amsterdam summit marks a clear turning point in Germany's position, the transformation of German policies on European security and defense proceeded rather as an incremental decrease in material support, aggravating substantive progress in the policy field more broadly. An unanticipated consequence of earlier initiatives, in both cases Germany has found it increasingly difficult to live up to the expectations it has helped to raise. |
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