Book contents
- Frontmatter
- POLITICS: Détente and Multipolarity: The Cold War and German-American Relations, 1968-1990
- 1 The United States and the German Question
- 2 The Federal Republic of Germany Between the American and Russian Superpowers - “Old Friend” and “New Partner”
- 3 Ostpolitik: Détente German-Style and Adapting to America
- 4 Creative Tension: The United States and the Federal Republic in the CSCE
- 5 The United States, Germany, and the Multilateralization of International Relations
- 6 Expectations of Dominance and Partnership Rhetoric: The Federal Republic of Germany in the Crossfire of American and French Policy, 1945-1990
- 7 West Germany and European Unity in U.S. Foreign Policy
- 8 Cooperation and Conflict in German and American Policies toward Regions Outside Europe
- 9 Two States, One Nation: The International Legal Basis of German-American Relations from Ostpolitik to Unification
- 10 The U.S. Congress and German-American Relations
- 11 The German Political Parties and the USA
- 12 The Role of East Germany in American Policy
- 13 The United States and German Unification
- SECURITY: German-American Security Relations, 1968-1990
- ECONOMICS: Cooperation, Competition, and Conflict: Economic Relations Between the United States and Germany, 1968-1990
- CULTURE: Culture as an Arena of Transatlantic Conflict
- SOCIETY: German-American Societal Relations in Three Dimensions, 1968-1990
- 1 “1968”: A Transatlantic Event and Its Consequences
- OUTLOOK: America, Germany, and the Atlantic Community After the Cold War
- Index
8 - Cooperation and Conflict in German and American Policies toward Regions Outside Europe
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 January 2013
- Frontmatter
- POLITICS: Détente and Multipolarity: The Cold War and German-American Relations, 1968-1990
- 1 The United States and the German Question
- 2 The Federal Republic of Germany Between the American and Russian Superpowers - “Old Friend” and “New Partner”
- 3 Ostpolitik: Détente German-Style and Adapting to America
- 4 Creative Tension: The United States and the Federal Republic in the CSCE
- 5 The United States, Germany, and the Multilateralization of International Relations
- 6 Expectations of Dominance and Partnership Rhetoric: The Federal Republic of Germany in the Crossfire of American and French Policy, 1945-1990
- 7 West Germany and European Unity in U.S. Foreign Policy
- 8 Cooperation and Conflict in German and American Policies toward Regions Outside Europe
- 9 Two States, One Nation: The International Legal Basis of German-American Relations from Ostpolitik to Unification
- 10 The U.S. Congress and German-American Relations
- 11 The German Political Parties and the USA
- 12 The Role of East Germany in American Policy
- 13 The United States and German Unification
- SECURITY: German-American Security Relations, 1968-1990
- ECONOMICS: Cooperation, Competition, and Conflict: Economic Relations Between the United States and Germany, 1968-1990
- CULTURE: Culture as an Arena of Transatlantic Conflict
- SOCIETY: German-American Societal Relations in Three Dimensions, 1968-1990
- 1 “1968”: A Transatlantic Event and Its Consequences
- OUTLOOK: America, Germany, and the Atlantic Community After the Cold War
- Index
Summary
Translated by Robert Kimber and Rita Kimber
The impact that issues outside of Europe had on the relationship between the Federal Republic of Germany and the United States has not yet been studied in a comprehensive or systematic way. One reason for this omission is the very complexity of the subject. Another is that these questions normally did not play a major role in shaping West Germany's foreign policy and its relationship with the United States. Only at times of crisis did Third World issues suddenly take center stage in German-American relations and, in certain cases, create serious problems for Bonn's foreign policy. However, the most important reason for limited German attention to these questions is that the United States and the “old” Federal Republic played qualitatively very different roles in the international arena until 1990. Since the beginning of the Cold War, the leading Western power saw itself in a global conflict with the Soviet Union and its communist system. The policies of the Federal Republic, founded in 1949, were by contrast dominated by the division of Germany and the East-West conflict as it played out in Europe.
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- The United States and Germany in the Era of the Cold War, 1945–1990A Handbook, pp. 69 - 75Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2004