Suchergebnisse

Germany's two year period on the UN Security Council began in 2003, after a close vote in 2002 that again refused Germany permanent membership, with high aims for strengthening the conflict prevention & peace consolidation, increasing transparency, & raising the profile of a Common Foreign & Security Policy of the EU within the organization. Simultaneously, Berlin sought to underline Germany's readiness to play a role in peace keeping missions outside Europe. Germany's role in the UN mirrors its development from a defeated nation without influence, legitimacy, & sovereignty to acknowledged supporter of the world organization with an increasing self-assurance in foreign policy. The controversy over the Iraq War, coinciding with German membership, highlighted Germany's emancipation from the US & cost it US support. Though Germany may have lost its bid for a permanent seat, perhaps in part due to its restricted foreign policy orientation & relative inability to practically address collective systemic & security issues beyond an insistence on the rule of international law, Germany remains a primary contributor, & strides have been taken in addressing the institutional & security challenges. L. Reed