Una nueva política oriental en Alemania

Karl Kaiser

doi:10.5354/0719-3769.1969.19149

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Karl Kaiser

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West Germany has managed to play a prominent role in international politics. Its foreign policy is no longer totally circumscribed by the will of the powers that previously occupied it. This change occurs amid a general relaxation of the once rigid bipolar system that characterized the years immediately following World War II and the new German self-assertion. The division of Germany maintains the ability of the Federal Republic to maneuver, within relatively narrow margins, thus conferring certain precariousness to each of its movements. The future stability of Europe depends in part on how West Germany is aware of this margin and how it exploits it. Hence the German problem is now emerging in a new, more difficult perspective, and implicitly posing a greater challenge.

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Ostpolitik, Federal Republic of Germany, German Democratic Republic, West Germany, East Germany

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Karl Kaiser

Es profesor de política internacional en John Hopkins University Center, Bologna, Italia, y también profesor de ciencia política en la Universidad de Bonn, Alemania. Este articulo fue preparado especialmente para Estudios Internacionales, es una síntesis de su libro German foreign policy in transition: Bonn between East and West, editado por Oxford University Press, 1968, bajo los auspicios de Center for International Affairs, de Harvard, Twentieth Century Fund's Tocqueville Series, y Royal Institute of Inlernatonal Affairs.

Una nueva política oriental en Alemania

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