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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791947603321

Autore

Dalgaard-Nielsen Anja

Titolo

Germany, pacifism and peace enforcement [[electronic resource] /] / Anja Dalgaard-Nielsen, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, : Manchester University Press, 2006

ISBN

1-84779-641-9

1-78170-138-5

1-84779-212-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (197 p.)

Collana

Europe in Change

Europe in change

Altri autori (Persone)

Dalgaard-NielsenAnja

Disciplina

327.43

355.033543

Soggetti

National security - Germany

Security, International

Germany Military policy

Germany Defenses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. Research design and historical background -- pt. II. A military role for Germany in international crisis management? -- pt. III. The Bundeswehr : willing and able?.

Sommario/riassunto

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 1990's, 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