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1 Hans J. Morgenthau, Politics Among Nations: The Struggle for Power and Peace (6th ed.) (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985), p. 555.
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2 Mitteleuropa denotes a sphere of German influence which does not correspond completely to the idea of `Central Europe.' Milan Kundera described Mitteleuropa as a `piece of the Latin West which has fallen under Russian domination... which lies geographically in the center, culturally in the West and politically in the East'. Quoted in Gregory F. Treverton, America, Germany and the Future of Europe (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992), p. 171.
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3 See Margaret Thatcher, The Downing Street Years (New York: Harper Collins, 1993), pp. 792-793.
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4 See survey data, prepared by the Infratest Kommunikationsforschung GmbH , in Ronald D. Asmus, `German Perception of the United States at Unification', RAND, R-4069-AF (Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 1991), pp. 50-51.
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5 This point is made at length in Jochen Thies, `Observations on the Political Class in Germany', Daedalus , vol. 123, no. 1, January 1994. pp. 263-277
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6 John Mueller, Retreat from Doomsday: The Obsolescence of Major War (New York: Basic Books, 1989), p. 77.
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7 See Josef Joffe, `Reunification II: This time, no hob-nail boots', New York Times , 7 September 1990, p. A5.
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8 Simon Reich, The Fruits of Fascism (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1990), pp. 6-19.
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9 Fritz Stern, `Freedom and its Discontents', Foreign Affairs , vol. 72, no. 3, September/October 1993, p. 121.
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10 A notable exception were the remarks made by Nicholas Ridley, a member of Thatcher's Cabinet, to The Spectator on 14 July 1990, pp. 8-10.
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11 See Eurostat: Basic Statistics of the Community (Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 1993), 30th ed., p. 51.
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12 Le Monde , 2 August 1993, p. 1.
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13 Thies, p. 265.
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14 See Eurobarometer , no. 41, July 1994 (Brussels: Commission of the European Communities), p. A34.
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15 See Treaty on European Union , Maastricht, 7 February 1992. Title V, `Provisions on a Common Foreign and Security Policy', Article J.4.
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16 Tom Heneghan, `Clinton Encourages Greater German Role in World', Reuter News Service , 11 July 1994.
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17 The Week in Germany , 29 May 1992, quoting Chancellor Helmut Kohl speaking at the University of Heidelberg (New York: German Information Center), p. 1.
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18 Remarks attributed to `Frenchman in Bonn' appeared in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , 15 March 1994, p. 1.
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19 Robert Birnbaum, `France sends unusual warning to Germany on EU', The Reuter European Community Report , 16 March 1994.
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20 See data supplied by Institut für Demoskopie Allensbach , quoted in R. Asmus, `A Unified Germany', in Robert A. Levine, ed., Transition and Turmoil in the Atlantic Alliance (New York: Crane Russak 1992), p. 91.)
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21 Thomas Kielinger & Max Otte, `Germany: The Pressured Power', Foreign Policy , vol. 91, Summer 1993. pp. 44-63.
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22 `Germany Favours Partnership with East European countries', TASS , 25 March 1994.
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23 For a summary of the party political positions see, Randolph Nikutta, `Bundeswehr out-of-area: Stationen einer Fehlentwicklung', Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik , vol. 8, 1992, pp. 926-942, and Waldemar Schreckenberger, `Eine Chaotische Sicherheitspolitik', Der Spiegel , 15 February 1993, pp. 40-41.
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24 This may be partially rectified by the October 1993 memorandum of understanding regarding the feasibility study for the European transport aircraft, commissioned from a European Industrial Consortium [EUROFLAG].
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25 Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, first Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, declared on 3 October 1954 that the Federal Republic of Germany would not manufacture on its territory atomic, biological or chemical weapons alongside other prohibited weapons systems. This pledge appeared as Annex 1 to Protocol No. III on the Control of Armaments , signed at Paris on 23 October 1954.