Germany’s Incoherent Foreign Policy

Commentary feature. Europe’s largest economy needed to recognise that a new Atlanticist pact was needed if the West was to protect its liberal values.

The author analysed a speech Why Europe needs a new foreign policy given by Federal Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel's at the Berlin Foreign Policy Forum on the 5 December 2017.

She argued that the speech failed to address three fundamental issues:

+ the future of Atlanticism
+ how to deal with Russia
+ how digitization was affecting the conduct of diplomacy, economies, politics, and democracy.

• Primary Source

Germany: Federal Foreign Office: News, 05.12.17: Europe in a less comfortable world https://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/en/Newsroom/berliner-forum-aussenpolitik/909376

ECFR: Commentary, 15.12.17: Navigating the Eastern Flank without Germany? http://www.ecfr.eu/article/commentary_navigating_the_eastern_flank_without_germany

ECFR: Commentary, 12.01.18: From Iran to North Korea, German policymakers are at a loss http://www.ecfr.eu/article/commentary_from_iran_to_north_korea_german_policymakers_are_at_a_loss_02731

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