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Germany has become a geo-economic power since its unification
in 1990. Its foreign policy agenda has been shaped by its economic interests
and the role of its export sector. Nevertheless, Russian actions in Ukraine and
elsewhere in Europe combined with the accession of the Trump Administration
in the United States and the rise of China have resulted in a transition in
the foreign policy paradigm toward Germany as a shaping power and more
of a geopolitical actor which has to balance its economic interests with the
new strategic challenges of a newly unstable Europe.

Berlin's geo-economic model has ceded foreign policy to commercial interests. While the German public and media are among Putin's most vocal critics, they remain reluctantly realist on the use of sanctions. (Survival / SWP)

A more pluralistic, less structured security system [will incorporate] a decline in America's power [and] a rapid increase in China's relative power, but without an accompanying willingness or ability to take on global responsibilities.…

Given the growing limits on both American and Western power, the United States will have to learn to live with unpleasant states and avoid an infinitely elastic sense of its interests and power.