<i>Germany Says "No": The Iraq War and the Future of German Foreign and Security Policy</i>
Woodrow Wilson Center Press has published a new book, Germany Says "No": The Iraq War and the Future of German Foreign and Security Policy, by Dieter Dettke. It is copublished with The Johns Hopkins University Press.
According to Dieter Dettke, Germany's refusal to participate in the Iraq war signaled a resumption of the country's willingness to assert itself in global affairs, even in the face of contradictory U.S. desires. Germany Says "No" reviews the country's actions in major international crises from the first Gulf War to the war with Iraq, concluding—in contrast to many models of contemporary German foreign policy—that the country's civilian power paradigm has been succeeded by a defensive structural realist approach. Dettke traces the implications of this change both for Germany's participation in multilateral institutions and for its bilateral relations with the U.S., France, Russia, China, and India.
"The best book so far explaining Germany's role in the clash between Europe and America over the Iraq war, placing it into the context of a highly perceptive analysis of Germany's foreign policy as a great power, its options, constraints and relevance to the U.S. and the world."—Karl Kaiser, Harvard University
Dieter Dettke is an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University's Security Studies Program and a Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies. He was a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center in 2006–7.
Germany Says "No": The Iraq War and the Future of German Foreign and Security Policy is distributed by The Johns Hopkins University Press, accessible online at www.press.jhu.edu or by telephone at 1-800-537-5487. The list price is $60.00 for hardcover.
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