Breaches and Bridges - German Foreign Policy in Turbulent Times features an agenda-setting speech by the Federal President of Germany, Dr Frank-Walter Steinmeier, delivered as a GIGA Distinguished Speaker Lecture in June 2016, when he served as the Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs.This speech is ...
A number of essays in this volume show how the foreign policies of the US and Germany have directly or inadvertently contributed to the influx of refugees from the former Yugoslavia, Mexico, the Caribbean, and the former Soviet Union.
For more than a decade, West Germany denied Israel the commencement of official diplomatic relations. In a policy-reversal, however, Bonn eventually offered Jerusalem the exchange of ambassadors in 1965. This book interprets the government's change of heart as the result of grassroots intervention in high level politics.
