GERMANY, PACIFISM AND PEACE-ENFORCEMENT

"Germany, pacifism and peace enforcement is about the transformation of Germany's security and defense 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 preemptive 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 military crisis management that developed over the 1990s. Dalgaard-Nielsen debates the implications of Germany's transformation for Germany's partners and neighbours, and explains why Germany said "yes" to the war in Afghanistan, but 'no' to the Iraq war." "Based on a comprehensive study of the debates of the German Bundestag and actual German policy responses to the international crises between 1991 and 2003, the book provides new insights into the causes and results of Germany's transformation." "It should be of interest to academics and graduate students of Germany and European security as well as a broader audience, curious about the German view on the use of military force, new security threats and transatlantic security cooperation."--Jacket.