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Responds to Gunther Hellmann's (2004) article criticizing German foreign policy & its desire for a "power political re-socialization" & advocating "offensive idealism." While there is concurrence with Hellmann's criticisms regarding current Red-Green foreign policy, Hellmann overestimates the administration if he assumes that an actual strategy lies behind the administration's foreign policy failures. German foreign policy is more than ever before made in Berlin, but the renunciation of long-term planning & multilateral agreement is neither conceptually supported nor engenders any advancement. Current foreign policy decisions appear to be directed by the gut instinct of the Chancellor, leading to disagreement with partners & harm to German interests. A "pause" in foreign policy as Hellmann suggests, is simply not possible due to interdependency & the radical changes in global politics today. Additionally, though his proposal of offensive idealism is particularly important in the current atmosphere world politics, the very difficulties & resource constraints that Germany faces restrict any opportunities for such initiatives. L. Kehl