Germany, Pacifism and Peace Enforcement Annotated Edition
Author(s): Anja Dalgaard-Nielsen (Author)
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Publication Date: 28 Mar. 2006
Edition: Annotated
Language: English
Print length: 200 pages
ISBN-10: 0719072689
ISBN-13: 9780719072680
Book Description
Germany, pacifism and peace enforcement is about the transformation of Germany’s security and defence policy in the time between the 1991 Gulf War and the 2003 war against Iraq. The book traces and explains the reaction of Europe’s biggest and potentially most powerful country to the ethnic wars of the 1990s, the emergence of large-scale terrorism, and the new US emphasis on pre-emptive strikes.
Based on an analysis of Germany’s strategic culture it portrays Germany as a security actor and indicates the conditions and limits of the new German willingness to participate in international military crisis management that developed over the 1990s. It debates the implications of Germany’s transformation for Germany’s partners and neighbours and explains why Germany said ‘yes’ to the war in Afghanistan, but ‘no’ to the Iraq War.
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Germany, pacifism and peace enforcement is about the transformation of Germany s security and defence policy in the time between the 1991 Gulf War and the 2003 war against Iraq. The book traces and explains the reaction of Europe s biggest and potentially most powerful country to the ethnic wars of the 1990s, the emergence of large-scale terrorism, and the new US emphasis on pre-emptive strikes. Based on an analysis of Germany s strategic culture it portrays Germany as a security actor and indicates the conditions and limits of the new German willingness to participate in international military crisis management that developed over the 1990s. It debates the implications of Germany s transformation for Germany s partners and neighbours and explains why Germany said ‘yes’ to the war in Afghanistan, but ‘no’ to the Iraq War.
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Germany, pacifism and peace enforcement is about the transformation of Germany’s security and defence policy in the time between the 1991 Gulf War and the 2003 war against Iraq. The book traces and explains the reaction of Europe’s biggest and potentially most powerful country to the ethnic wars of the 1990s, the emergence of large-scale terrorism, and the new US emphasis on pre-emptive strikes.
Based on an analysis of Germany’s strategic culture it portrays Germany as a security actor and indicates the conditions and limits of the new German willingness to participate in international military crisis management that developed over the 1990s. It debates the implications of Germany’s transformation for Germany’s partners and neighbours and explains why Germany said ‘yes’ to the war in Afghanistan, but ‘no’ to the Iraq War.
About the Author
Anja Dalgaard-Nielsen is Fellow at the Danish Institute for International Studies, Copenhagen — .
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