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With the end of the Cold War, much attention has been paid to the nature of the emerging new world order. By what criteria will power and influence be measured in this new era? Who will be the winners and losers? What types of allegiances will develop? Or is Francis Fukuyama's argument correct that, with the collapse of communism, we have reached the "...endpoint of man's ideological evolution" and thus "the end of history". Unlike Marx, who saw socialism at the end of humanity's arduous journey, Fukuyama tells us that the search is off because we have already arrived at our evolutionary destination: liberal capitalism...Other analysts envision less optimistic scenarios...One of the most popular scenarios over the past few years has been to anticipate growing tensions between the three main core powers: the US, Germany, and Japan... The first task of this paper, then, is to look at Germany within the context of the radically altered post-Cold War period... We argue that Germany, based on a multitude of factors which will be outlined below, is not now, nor will it ever become in the foreseeable future, a global hegemon... Indeed, as will be asserted in the second part of this paper, Germany will enter into a close alliance with the United States to form a reinvigorated trans-Atlantic marriage in which the common bonds of "culture and civilization" will replace a virulent anti-communism as the common vow.

This paper will look specifically at the relations of the FRG, as one of the principal economic and political partners, with the apartheid state. These relations will be contrasted with those existing between the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and the African National Congress (ANC), the oldest and now exiled South African anti-apartheid organization. (DSE)

Argues that globalization threatens the ability of states to continue providing for the economic & social security of their citizens. The neoliberal Zeitgeist that accompanies globalization has now carried over to the social democratic parties of Europe, which have moved toward thc political center. Convergence criteria imposed by the European Union to introduce monetary union have added to the downward pressure on European welfare states. The German Sozialstaat predates the development of modern welfare states & is thus firmly anchored in the political culture of the country. Nevertheless, high unemployment, the costs of unification, & concern over global economic competitiveness are taking their toll on the ability of Germany's government to continue funding social welfare schemes. Unification, in particular, has added enormously to public expenditures, while self-sustaining economic development is not in sight. 1 Table, 2 Photographs. Adapted from the source document.

What is the precise nature of the relationship between the so-called Third World and the industrialised West? While a question of this sort was much more easily answered in the era of direct colonial control over vast non-European regions, there is much debate concerning the symmetry of economic and political relationships in the postindependence period. In fact, to a considerable number of observers, it is asymmetry which characterises the ties between the industrialised and 'underdeveloped' countries, based on a long historical process of incorporation into the western capitalist system. Political independence, these critics argue, has merely shifted a 'colonial' to a 'neo-colonial' relationship, leaving the unevenness basically intact.

Vertretung der These, daß die Beziehungen Bonns - wie der meisten Industrieländer - zu Schwarzafrika in starkem Maße neokolonialer Natur sind und primär von Wirtschaftsinteressen betimmt werden. Wirtschaftliche Verflechtungen mit Afrika. Diskussion der offiziell verfolgten Politik am Beispiel von BMZ, GTZ, KW, DEG, Hermes Exportkreditversicherung, Treuarbeit etc. Arbeitsplatzversicherung durch Exporte. Hallstein-Doktrin und Friedenspolitik. Ein Wandel in der wirtschaftlichen Ausrichtung der Entwicklungshilfepolitik ist auch in Zukunft nicht zu erwarten. (DÜI-Hlb)