This is the first attempt of its kind to analyse foreign policymaking in reunified Germany. The contributors cover all actors and institutions that influence foreign policy directly or indirectly, taking into account modern Germany's wider foreign relations. To this end, they examine not only classical foreign policy institutions like the Chancellery, Foreign Office and Ministry of Defence, but also other organisations such as specialised ministries, the Länder Parliament, political parties, NGOs, and the media. Built on the insights of practical experience in diplomacy, administration and Parliament as well as academic research, this volume offers an invaluable guide to German foreign policy since reunification and projects its future development at the dawn of the twenty-first century.

LISETTE ANDREAE Research Fellow University of Bonn SEBASTIAN BARTSCH Postdoctoral Fellow, European University Institute, Florence FRANK BRETTSCHNEIDER Assistant Professor, University of Stuttgart WOLFGANG FISCHER Senior Research, Research Centre Jülich JÜRGEN HARTMANN Professor of Political Science, University of the Federal Armed Forces, Hamburg GUNTHER HELLMAN Professor of Political Science, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University and Director, Research Group on International Organizations, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt PETRA HOLTRUP Research Scholar, Public Policy Research Centre, University of Colorado, Boulder CHRISTIAN HOLST Director, Political and Social Research, Market Research Institute, INRA, Deutschland, Mölln WERNER HOYER Member of the German Bundestag MICHÉLE KNODT Research Assistant, Faculty of Social Sciences, Mannheim University JOACHIM KRAUSE Deputy Director, Research Institute of the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), Berlin MARKUS MILDENBURGER Senior Research Fellow, German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), Berlin MANFRED MOLS Professor of Political Science, Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz HANS-FRIEDRICH VON PLOETZ Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Court of St James's, London LOTHAR RÜHL Professor of International Relations, University of Cologne JUDITH SIWERT-PROBST Research Fellow, University of Bonn HORST-DIETER WESTERHOFF Head of Department, Federal Chancellery and Professor of Statistics,University of Essen HANS-GEORG WIECK Head of OSCE Advisory and Monitoring Group, Belarus, Minsk