German European Policy – Publication of the third edition of the Handbuch

07/10/2024

For the first time, a so-called traffic light coalition of Social Democrats, Greens and Liberals is governing at federal level in Germany. What characterises their European policy compared to previous governments? The coalition certainly didn't have a grace period: Russia attacked Ukraine just a short time after taking office – a turning point for the security order and the German economic model with implications for European policy and far beyond. These developments are highlighted and analysed in the fundamental work "Deutsche Europapolitik. Handbuch für Wissenschaft und Praxis", which was published by Nomos Verlag in September 2024.

The reference work appears under a new name and in a new guise as the 3rd, revised and updated edition of the ‘Handbuch zur deutschen Europapolitik’. It covers more than 65 years of German European policy in key policy areas of the European Union and the influence that Germany has on European integration and decision-making processes. For the first time, it includes a chapter on the concept of feminist foreign policy and climate adaptation policy. New is also the addition of the energy policy to the environmental chapter.

The new edition of the Handbuch includes:

• a foreword by Dr Anna Lührmann, Member of Bundestag and Minister of State for Europe and Climate,
• an introduction by the editors on the basic lines of German European policy before and after the ‘Zeitenwende’,
• fundamentals and concepts of German European policy with for the first time a contribution on the concept of feminist foreign policy,
• domestic determinants and actors of German European policy,
• Germany's role in internal EU policy areas such as budget and finance, redistributive policies, economic and monetary union, migration and asylum, climate adaptation policy, energy and environmental policy as well as social policy,
• Germany's role in external EU policies such as trade relations, foreign, security and defence policy with regard to ‘Zeitenwende’, EU-Russia relations, EU enlargement and the European Neighbourhood Policy,
• German European policy: perspectives in selected partner states,
• theoretical approaches to German European policy,
• a comprehensive chronicle of German European policy from 1946 to the present day.

With contributions by:

Gabriele Abels, Peter Becker, Timm Beichelt, Simon Bulmer, Isabelle Buscke, Christian Calliess, Lucas Resende Carvalho, Agnieszka Cianciara, Claire Demesmay, Gabriele D‘Ottavio, Christian Dreger, Daniel Göler, Martin Große Hüttmann, Ines Hartwig, Rudolf Hrbek, Mathias Jopp, Annette Jünemann, Henning Klodt, Wilhelm Knelangen, Barbara Lippert, Anna Lührmann, Andreas Maurer, Stormy-Annika Mildner, Gisela Müller-Brandeck-Bocquet, Oskar Niedermayer, Ardahan Özkan Gedikli, Sarah Pagung, Thieß Petersen, Hans-Wolfgang Platzer, Julian Plottka, Daniel Posch, Barbara Saerbeck, Frank Schimmelfennig, Leonie Stamm, Roland Sturm, Julia Teebken, Funda Tekin und Thomas von Winter.

The book aims at researchers, students, politicians and practitioners and all those who deal with Germany's role in the European Union. The handbook is funded by the Federal Foreign Office. The editors are based at the Institut für Europäische Politik which is funded by the EU's CERV programme 2021–2027.

Edited by Prof Dr Mathias Jopp and Prof Dr Funda Tekin

Nomos Verlag, 2024, 611 pages, print or ebook, 69 €.

Publication date: Septembre 2024

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