Germany, pacifism and peace enforcement
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Germany, pacifism and peace enforcement
(Europe in change)
Manchester University Press , Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2006
- : hardback
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-181) and index
Description and Table of Contents
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. -- .
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION: From Iraq to Iraq: full circle?
PART I: Research design and historical background
1. Studying German strategic culture
2. A post-war history of German security culture
PART II: A military role for Germany in international crisis management?
3. From the Gulf War to Somalia: cracks in the old consensus
4. From Srebrenica to Operation Allied Force: reinterpreting the lessons of the past
5. Back to the Gulf: limits and possibilities of the new consensus
PART III: The Bundeswehr: willing and able?
6. The Bundeswehr: a force for good?
7. The Bundeswehr's projection capability
CONCLUSION: Germany, pacifism, pre-emptive strikes -- .
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