Revising Ostpolitik Implications of the Zeitenwende for European and Transatlantic Relations

verfasst von

Christiane Lemke

Abstract

The Russian invasion of Ukraine marks a turning point in European security policy. Defense concepts have been altered within Europe as well as in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and Russia is no longer seen as a European partner, but a threat to security and stability in Europe. The article argues that the term Zeitenwende coined by the German chancellor is not a rhetorical figure; rather, it is reshaping Germany’s approach to the East and upended German and European Ostpolitik. In fact, the new foreign policy direction sheds illusions of both the classic Ostpolitik of the Cold War and the new Ostpolitik of post-unification Germany by introducing a fundamentally different approach to Eastern and Central Eastern Europe and within NATO. The article explores the critical juncture created by the Zeitenwende of 2022 and its implications for European security policy.

Organisationseinheit(en)

Institut für Politikwissenschaft

Typ

Artikel

Journal

German Politics and Society

Band

42

Seiten

80-95

Anzahl der Seiten

16

ISSN

1045-0300

Publikationsdatum

01.06.2024

Publikationsstatus

Veröffentlicht

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Kultur und Raum, Verlauf, Soziologie und Politikwissenschaften

Ziele für nachhaltige Entwicklung

SDG 16 – Frieden, Gerechtigkeit und starke Institutionen

Elektronische Version(en)

https://doi.org/10.3167/gps.2024.420205 (Zugang: Geschlossen)