Author: Heinz-Dieter WinterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Current Issues in the GDR's Domestic and Foreign Policies
Author: Heinz-Dieter WinterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
The German Problem Transformed
Author: Thomas BanchoffPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472110087
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
A systematic examination of Germany's post-reunification foreign policy from a broader historical and analytical perspective
GDR Development Policy in Africa
Author: Ulrich van der HeydenPublisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 3643904215
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
This book focuses the multi-faceted and far-reaching dealings between the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) and Third World countries, including their liberation movements and development policies. For almost 40 years, the history and previously intense relationship which was maintained between the GDR and Africa has been disregarded. This situation is arguably incomprehensible as Germany's image in many Third World countries has been defined greatly by the smaller of the two Germanies, especially in South Africa. (Series: Spectrum. Berlin Series on Society, Economy and Policy in Developing Countries / Spektrum. Berliner Reihe zu Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft und Politik in Entwicklungslandern - Vol. 109)
China-GDR Relations from 1949 to 1989
Author: Axel BerkofskyPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030793370
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
This book provides an in-depth analysis of the relations between China and the German Democratic Republic (GDR) from 1949 to 1989. These relations were characterized by some “ups” but many more “downs,” e.g. when, in the early 1960s, the Soviet Union ordered its vassal state in East Berlin to begin treating its former socialist comrade and brother-in-arms as an adversary and indeed enemy. Drawing on a wealth of archival material, especially from the archive of the GDR’s ruling party, this book examines selected issues and elements of East German and Chinese domestic and foreign policy. In order to better grasp the nature and the historical context of the bilateral relationship, it offers detailed insights into the following aspects: 1. the bilateral “honeymoon period” from 1949 to the late 1950s, which was accompanied by the two parties supporting and applauding each other’s oppressive domestic and ill-fated economic policies, including Mao’s Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution; 2. relations during the 1960s, when the “Sino-Soviet Split” defined the quality and level of bilateral animosities; 3. the 1970s, when Beijing replaced socialist comradeship with East Berlin with trade and aid from the US and West Germany; and 4. the resumption of Sino-East German relations in the 1980s and the subsequent period up to the Tiananmen Square protests and the collapse of the GDR in 1989. The book will appeal to historians, political scientists and scholars of international relations, as well as policymakers, diplomats, and others with an interest in this previously under-researched area.
The Foreign Policies of Eastern Europe
Author: James A. KuhlmanPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789028605770
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Contemporary Issues in Soviet Foreign Policy
Author: Erik HoffmannPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351526170
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 865
Book Description
This survey of writings on the debates about and events relating to Soviet foreign policy concentrates on the Gorbachev period. Changes in Soviet theory and foreign policy decision making are covered in the first section. Twelve articles examine Gorbachevs policy towards a number of different geographic regions, and several more assess the permanence of Gorbachevs foreign policy changes.
Foreign Policy in Comparative Perspective
Author: Ryan K. BeasleyPublisher: CQ Press
ISBN: 1452288968
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
Widely regarded as the most comprehensive comparative foreign policy text, Foreign Policy in Comparative Perspective has been completely updated in this much-anticipated second edition. Exploring the foreign policies of thirteen nations—both major and emerging players, and representing all regions of the world—chapter authors link the study of international relations to domestic politics, while treating each nation according to individual histories and contemporary dilemmas. The book's accessible theoretical framework is designed to enable comparative analysis, helping students discern patterns to understand why a state acts as it does in foreign affairs.
Between Containment and Rollback
Author: Christian F. OstermannPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 1503607631
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 607
Book Description
In the aftermath of World War II, American policymakers turned to the task of rebuilding Europe while keeping communism at bay. In Germany, formally divided since 1949,the United States prioritized the political, economic, and, eventually, military integration of the fledgling Federal Republic with the West. The extraordinary success story of forging this alliance has dominated our historical under-standing of the American-German relationship. Largely left out of the grand narrative of American–German relations were most East Germans who found themselves caught under Soviet and then communist control by the post-1945 geo-political fallout of the war that Nazi Germany had launched. They were the ones who most dearly paid the price for the country's division. This book writes the East Germans—both leadership and general populace—back into that history as objects of American policy and as historical agents in their own right Based on recently declassified documents from American, Russian, and German archives, this book demonstrates that U.S. efforts from 1945 to 1953 went beyond building a prosperous democracy in western Germany and "containing" Soviet-Communist power to the east. Under the Truman and then the Eisenhower administrations, American policy also included efforts to undermine and "roll back" Soviet and German communist control in the eastern part of the country. This story sheds light on a dark-er side to the American Cold War in Germany: propaganda, covert operations, economic pressure, and psychological warfare. Christian F. Ostermann takes an international history approach, capturing Soviet and East German responses and actions, and drawing a rich and complex picture of the early East–West confrontation in the heart of Europe.
Foreign and Domestic Policy in Eastern Europe in the 1980s
Author: Michael J. SodaroPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349172510
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Soviet Foreign Policy Towards East Germany
Author: Achilleas MegasPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319200011
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
This book examines Soviet Foreign Policy towards East Germany in the late 1980s. By focusing on the complex interaction between domestic political thought and developments in the international system, the author illustrates the hierarchical relationship between the GDR and the USSR and offers different perspectives for understanding Soviet foreign policy. The books demonstrates that shifts in Soviet policy towards the GDR stemmed, on the one hand, from the international level, in that Soviet security was legitimated by the existence of two full-fledged German states, and, on the other, may be best explained in terms of ideas and Gorbachev’s new political philosophy.