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Germany, pacifism and peace enforcement

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Manchester : Manchester University Press, (c)2006.Description: 1 online resource (197 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781847792129
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • UA710 .G476 2006
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Contents:
Subject: 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 militar.
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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE Non-fiction UA710 .29 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available ocn818847252

Includes bibliographies and index.

9780719072680; 9780719072680; Contents; List of Tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 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; Appendix A; Bibliography; Index.

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 militar.

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