Germany’s coalition faces division on several fronts

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Policy Decision ◽  
Public Image ◽  
Economic Recovery ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Strong Emphasis ◽  
Investment Agreement ◽  
Policy Decision Making ◽  
The Eu

Significance The three parties successfully negotiated a coalition agreement with a strong emphasis on modernising Germany’s economy. Throughout the negotiations, the parties presented a public image of stability and harmony, yet several divisive issues will test the new government's stability and effectiveness. Impacts The composition of the new government will make it harder for Berlin to win approval for the EU-China Comprehensive Investment Agreement. Chancellor Olaf Scholz will seek to prioritise more unity at the EU level when it comes to foreign policy decision-making. The spread of the Omicron variant will slow economic recovery and potentially delay the transition to a greener economy.

US Congress’s foreign policy role to grow under Biden

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
National Security ◽  
Policy Decision ◽  
Security Threats ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Democratic Control ◽  
Policy Decision Making

Significance Before the inauguration, Congress will focus on confirming Biden’s nominees to key foreign policy and national security posts. Confirming Biden’s picks is now easier since the Senate will soon switch to Democratic control. Impacts Biden will involve Congress more than Trump did in foreign policy decision-making. Achieving consensus in foreign policy will not be easy, for instance regarding re-entering the JCPOA with Iran. Biden will increase the attention paid to non-traditional security threats in foreign policy, including climate change. Unpicking last-minute Trump foreign policy moves will be rapid in some cases, slow in others.

Emotions and EU foreign policy

2021 ◽  
Vol 97 (2) ◽  
pp. 287-304
Author(s):  
Karen E Smith
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
European Union ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Policy Decision ◽  
Foreign Policy Analysis ◽  
Eu Foreign Policy ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Policy Decision Making ◽  
The Eu

Abstract This article assesses the role that emotions play in European Union foreign policy-making. EU decision-making has often been depicted as technocratic and ‘de-dramatized’, yet there are still situations in which emotions can affect the process and outcomes of foreign policy decision-making. Using examples of the EU's responses to crises in Ukraine and Myanmar, the article illustrates that emotions can motivate the taking of particular decisions at particular times. Further, the EU expresses emotions in its foreign policy communications, although its use of emotional diplomacy may not be accompanied by substantive action appropriate to the emotions expressed, thus revealing the existence of an emotions–action gap. The ‘emotional turn’ in foreign policy analysis can open up new directions for research in EU foreign policy, and the conclusion considers other promising avenues for researching emotions and EU foreign policy.

Modeling Foreign Policy Decision Making

1970 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 136, 138
Author(s):  
RICHARD L. MERRITT
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Policy Decision ◽  
Policy Decision Making

Three Looks at German Foreign Policy before September 11: A Landscape Shifts

2002 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 73-81
Author(s):  
Karen Donfried
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Policy Decision ◽  
The Political ◽  
German Foreign Policy ◽  
State University ◽  
European Monetary ◽  
Monetary Cooperation ◽  
Policy Decision Making ◽  
The Eu

Wolf-Dieter Eberwein and Karl Kaiser, Germany’s New Foreign Policy: Decision-Making in an Independent World (Hampshire: Palgrave, 2001)Adrian Hyde-Price, Germany & European Order: Enlarging NATO and the EU (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000)Matthias Kaelberer, Money and Power in Europe: The Political Economy of European Monetary Cooperation (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001)

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