German Foreign Policy

Course content

The course content includes: The foreign policy of Germany from Bismarck to Hitler; the emergence of the FRG and GDR; the rearmament of FRG and NATO membership; new orientation in foreign policy of the Adenauer Government (1949-1963); `Ostpolitik` of the FRG during the Grand Coalition (1968-1974); foreign policy under Helmut Schmidt (1974-1982); relations between FRG and GDR; changes in foreign policy under Helmut Kohl and German Unification.