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The rhetoric of the German federal election campaign was characterized by the term "family," while women's & equal opportunity politics played only a residual role in the election debate. Our study investigates the causes for this reduction of women's policy to family policy in the election campaign. We analyzed the programmatic statements of the five major parties, the strategies employed by the campaign headquarters, & the national press reports in the months heading up to the elections. The main finding is that the refamiliarization of gender debates was primarily due to the masculinist frames within the campaign headquarters. Campaign strategists for the most part exhibited little differentiated knowledge regarding gender issues. Moreover, their need for polarization & dramatization of the campaign formed a mixture of women's & policy issues that addressed women only as mothers -- while for example leaving fathers completely out of the discourse frames. During the campaign, equal opportunity issues were not only dethematized but also delegitimized. The German media supported this delegitimation by way of indexing issues according to weight they had acquired in the campaigns. 18 References. Adapted from the source document.

The author analyzes the future prospects of diplomatic service in the era of globalization. In his analysis, he draws from the German experience & the book Wem dient der auswartige Dienst? The author claims that foreign policy is determined by economic issues so it is pointless to separate the security/political & the economic/political aspects & competences of a government. The same applies to diplomatic corps: they cannot be exempted from economic tasks. Heads of diplomatic offices today have to be partners regarding economic topics when discussing politics & economy of the host country. Concerning the role of nongovernmental organizations, the author thinks that they cannot replace the state & its civil servants. For communicating with them, foreign service needs "generalists" more than "specialists." The key value of the future foreign service includes an overall review of the bilateral relations with the host country; this envisages that diplomats are to retain their central role in the networking of various actors & areas. Besides the legal/consular, economic, cultural & security/political tasks, diplomatic offices regularly maintain contacts & cooperate with the host country in specialized fields such as defense, science, social issues, & agriculture. 16 References. Adapted from the source document.