What Does Germany Want?
In foreign-policy terms, post-war West Germany – and, later, reunified Germany – was utterly predictable: never against the West; always for more Europe. Now, the “Berlin Republic,” while more secure than ever about its identity, is seemingly at sea in its dealings with the world.
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PRINCETON – By now, everyone knows that Germany is calling the shots not just in the eurozone, but across all of Europe. Inside Germany, there used be endless debates about German identity – what one historian called “the continual dispute about what being German might mean.” But, in foreign-policy terms, post-war West Germany – and, later, reunified Germany – was utterly predictable: never against the West; always for more Europe. Now, the “Berlin Republic” is very secure about its identity – and seemingly at sea in its dealings with the world.