UNITED GERMANY’S CIVILIAN FOREIGN POLICY

Carothers Thomas ‘Civil Society’, Foreign Policy, Winter 1999–2000, p. 19.

Lisman C. David , Towards a Civil Society, Civic Literary and Service Learning, Bergin and Garvey, Westport, Connecticut, 1998, p. 18.

Carothers Thomas , ‘Civil Society’, op. cit. p. 19.

Lisman C. David , op. cit. p. 15.

Jyotirmoy Thomas , op. cit. , pp. 20, 21.

Walzer Michael , ‘Rescuing Civil Society’, Dissent, New York, Winter 1999, p. 2

Ibid ., pp 2–7.

Carothers Thomas , ‘Civil Society’, op. cit. , pp. 26,27

Facts about Germany, The Press and Information Office of the Federal Government, Societas Verlag, Frankfurt/Main, 1999, pp. 191, 192.

Ibid ., p. 399

‘September 22, 2002,: Elections in Germany’, The German News, Vol. XLIII, August-September 2002, The Press and Information Office, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, New Delhi, p. 6.

Websites of the political parties in the FRG, eg., www.cdu.de, www.csu.de, www.spd.de, www.fdp.de, www.gruene.de, etc.

‘Statement by Helmut Kohl, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, on the occasion of the signing of the Treaty (between the FRG and the GDR, establishing a Monetary, Economic and Social Union), Bonn, 18 May, 1990, in The Unification of Germany, A Documentation, The Press and Information Office of the Federal Government, Bonn, 1991, pp. 32, 33.

www.auswaertiges-amt.de .

Ibid .

This statement was quoted by Theodore Waggle, Federal Minister of Finance, in the Bundestag (Parliament), on 23 May 1990, during the first debate on the Treaty on Monetary, Economic, and Social Union, in The Unification of Germany in 1990, A Documentation, and opacity . p. 72.

Policy Statement in the Bundestag by Chancellor Kohl on the Treaty of 18, May, 1990 on the External Aspects of German Unity, and on German Polish Relations, Bonn, 21 June 1990, ibid. p. 50.

Article-4 and Preamble to the Basic Law, in The Unification of Germany in 1990, ibid. p. 72.

Policy Statement of Chancellor Kohl, 21 June 1990, ibid. p. 47.

Ibid .

Ibid .

Ibid .

Ibid .

Ibid .

Ibid .

Ibid .

www.auswaertiges-amt.de (section on the UN).

Ibid .

Ibid .

Ibid .

Ibid .

Ibid .

http://www.germanembassyottawa.org/gfp/index.html (section on European Policy), 15/2/1999.

www.germanembassyottawa.org , op. cit.

Ibid .

Ibid .

www.germanembassyottawa.org, op. cit (section on Russia).

Facts about Germany, op. cit. , pp. 199, 200.

Ibid . p. 205.

Hesse Reinhard , ‘Active Partner, The Foreign Policy of the Schroeder Government’, Deutschland, Societas Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, in cooperation with the Press and Information Office of the Federal Government, Berlin, E No. 4/2002, August/September, 2002, p. 18.

Facts about Germany, op. cit. , pp. 232, 234. Also it must be remembered that even before unification, the FRG agreed to cut down the combined German armed forces after unity by 45% of the grand total.

Websites of the political parties in the FRG.

See my article ‘The Economic Unification of Germany’, Jadavpur Journal of International Relations, Jadavpur University, Calcutta, Vol. 5. 2000, pp 91–104. Industrial output rose by just 0.5% (June 2002), GDP at an annual rate of 1.1%, Unemployment at 9.9%. (The Economist, August 24, 2002, p. 72.

Hesse Reinhard , op. cit., p. 18