UID:
kobvindex_DGP1642757748
Format:
Ill.
ISSN:
0940-4171
Content:
The serious, difficult and dangerous tasks of the future are no longer set in Europe, but rather in the geopolitical key region of the 21st century that is the extended area between Cairo and Kashmir and between Aden and Astrachan. This realization leads to the second prognosis: In view of the increasingly unstable situation in the Near and Middle East, the crisis and conflict potential of this large region will inevitably have to be moved into the focus of Germany's security policy which is geared to achieving stability and ensuring peace. The experiences gained in the Balkans in the nineties of the 2Oth century, particularly in the former border provinces of the Ottoman Empire which German geographers of the l9th century once correctly described as the "European Orient", give only a first impression of the dimensions of future challenges which all European and Atlantic net-worked economies and societies will have to face. Against this empiric background the hope that Germany as a central European nation could at least partially evade active peacemaking and peacekeeping efforts in the Near and Middle East can lead into a European and Atlantic isolation in the same way as did the passive Balkans policy of the Kohl/Kinkel government in the years 1992/93. (Europäische Sicherheit/SWP)
In:
Europäische Sicherheit, Hamburg : Mittler, 1991, 52(2003), 2, Seite 18-21, 0940-4171
Language:
German
