Deutsche Sicherheitspolitik seit 1990: Auf der Suche nach einer Strategie Deutsche Sicherheitspolitik seit 1990: Auf der Suche nach einer Strategie

The paper takes stock of German security policy since 1990 from the point of view of interdepartmental understanding of security and whole-of-government security provision. It elaborates the lack of awareness of the connection between diplomacy and military strategy in historical perspective and identifies the associated strategic gap in the formulation and implementation of practical foreign and security policy. This is particularly evident in foreign policy debates in the Bundestag and a poorly developed interdepartmental, security policy understanding of the Bundeswehr's foreign missions. There is a lack of interdepartmental planning and analysis capacities for a forward-looking, strategically positioned security policy, as well as a lack of willingness to think holistically about foreign policy, economic policy and military strategy and to implement them in a joint security policy concept.