Germany's Ost- and Russlandpolitik since 1990 - Einzelansicht

Not only since the Russian invasion of Ukraine has the German relations with Russia been a key question of international politics. This course will look at the development of German Ost- and Russlandpolitik since the end of the Cold War, extending to the question of NATO and EU eastern enlargement. By including the long-term perspective of German-Russian relations in the 20th century, this course will try to trace the developments of the 1990s and early 2000s.

Bagger, Thomas. The World According to Germany: Reassessing 1989, in: The Washington Quarterly, 41:4 (2018), 53-63.

Bulmer, Simon, and William E. Paterson, Germany as the EU’s Reluctant Hegemon? Of Economic Strength and Political Constraints, in: Journal of European Public Policy, 20:10 (2013), 1387-1405.

Chivvis, Christopher S., and Thomas Rid, The Roots of Germany’s Russia Policy, in: Survival, 51:2 (2009), 105-122.

Fix, Liana. Germany’s Role in European Russia Policy. A New German Power? (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021).

Högselius, Per. Red Gas. Russia and the Origins of European Energy Dependency (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).

Lasas, Ainius. European Union and NATO Expansion. Central and Eastern Europe (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).

Lough, John. Germany’s Russia Problem. The Struggle for Balance in Europe (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022).

Sarotte, Mary Elise. Not one inch. America, Russia and the Making of the Post-Cold War Stalemate(New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021). 

Seibel, Wolfgang. Arduous learning or New Uncertainties? The Emergence of German Diplomacy in the Ukrainian Crisis, in: Global Policy, 6:S1 (2015), 56-72.

Spanger, Hans-Joachim. The Perils of Path Dependency: Germany’s Russia Policy, in: Europe-Asia Studies, 72:6 (2020), 1053-1072.

Stent, Angela E. Russia and Germany Reborn. Unification, the Soviet Collapse, and the New Europe (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998).

Wallander, Celeste A. Mortal Friends, Best Enemies. German-Russian Cooperation after the Cold War (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999).

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