Vol. 20 · No. 4 · Issue 65 · Winter 2002
Three Looks at German Foreign Policy before September 11A Landscape Shifts
Karen Donfried
Foreign Policy Program, The German Marshall Fund of the United States
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Abstract
Wolf-Dieter Eberwein and Karl Kaiser, Germany's New Foreign Policy: Decision-Making in an Independent World (Hampshire: Palgrave, 2001)
Adrian Hyde-Price, Germany & European Order: Enlarging NATO and the EU (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000) Matthias Kaelberer, Money and Power in Europe: The Political Economy of European Monetary Cooperation (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001)
It is striking to read books about German foreign policy written before the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Many of what were truisms then are no more. Adrian Hyde-Price aptly concludes his analysis by observing: "Politicians, Harold Macmillan once remarked, have only one thing to fear: 'events, old boy, events.' Academics reflecting on future developments should bear Macmillan's admonitions in mind when tempted to prognosticate about the future" (223). Little could he know how these words would resonate two years later.