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2012.
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| Summary/Abstract |
In this analysis of the recent debate on defence policy in Germany, Henrik Heidenkamp and Ferdi Akaltin highlight a growing re-evaluation of the German and European strategic environment, and a seeming willingness on the part of German policy-makers to identify a common European solution to the current defence-capabilities gap. After analysing why German politicians no longer seem to dismiss the idea of a common European army as the unrealisable dream of idealists, the authors present the difficult questions that German policy-makers, and their European allies, will need to confront should they wish to turn their ideas into concrete policy, and suggest ways in which such a project could be realised in the long term.
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