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Acknowledgments
Foreword
Summary
Executive Summary
Chapter 1 – Introduction: Assessing the Zeitenwende
John R. Deni and Jeffrey D. Rathke
Chapter 2 – Germany’s National Security Strategy: Is It Helping or Hurting the Zeitenwende?
Marina E. Henke
What Is Good Grand Strategy?
Criteria 1: Define Core Strategic Goals
Criteria 2: Identify Core Strategic Challenges
Criteria 3: Analyze Core Strategic Challenges
Criteria 4: Designing a Logic of Action
Criteria 5: Translating Strategic Ideas into Concrete Actions
Does Germany’s National Security Strategy Apply These Best Practices?
Germany’s Strategic Goals
Germany’s Strategic Challenges
Germany’s Policy Recommendations
What Now?
Chapter 3 – Washington’s Expectations, American Strategy, and Germany’s Role
John R. Deni
Introduction
Challenges Confronting the United States
The Role of Allies
Germany’s Role
The Zeitenwende’s Impact . . . and Its Promise
Conclusion
Chapter 4 – German Conventional Defense Capabilities and Capacity
Aylin Matlé
Germany’s Conventional Defense Capabilities Since the Zeitenwende
Whether and How the Goals Have Been Addressed
Implications for the German-US Relationship
Recommendations: How to Move Forward
Chapter 5 – A Zeitenwende for Germany’s Defense Industry
Sophia Besch
German Defense Industry—Financial, Political, Regulatory, and Cultural Challenges
Two Steps Forward
. . . One Step Back
Multilateralizing the Zeitenwende
Stumbling Blocks Ahead
The Way Ahead
Chapter 6 – Zeitenwende Energy Policy
Loyle Campbell and Tim Bosch
Introduction: Germany’s Evolving Energy Security
Prewar Context of German Energy Policy
Reacting to External Shock: Primacy of Security of Supply
High Economic Costs of Managing the Energy Crisis
The Growing Link Between Energiewende and Energy Security
Remaining Challenges
Conclusion and Recommendations
Chapter 7 – The End of Ostpolitik?
Angela E Stent
German-Russian Relations Prior to February 2022
The Zeitenwende Scorecard—Economic and Energy Ties
Political Ties
The Russian Response
Support for Ukraine
Implications for the United States
Chapter 8 – The Institutional Dimension: NATO, the EU, and Multinational Cooperation
Jeffrey D. Rathke and Theresa Luetkefend
Introduction
Germany’s Zeitenwende in NATO
A Decade of Fitful Struggles to Increase Defense Spending
Germany’s Role in the New NATO Force Model
Brigade in Lithuania
Slowly Making Up for Decades-Long Underinvestment
New Initiatives to Achieve Multinational Critical Mass
Germany’s Zeitenwende in the EU
The EU Takes a Back Seat to Berlin’s National and NATO Efforts
The Sputtering Franco-German Engine
Conclusion
Chapter 9 – Zeitenwende: China, Germany, and the United States
May-Britt U. Stumbaum and Sharon de Cet
Changes in Germany’s China Policy Already Underway
China-Russia Relations in the German Eye
Two Firsts: Germany’s National Security Strategy and China Strategy
Trade
Ambivalent Political Signals
Security
German-US Relations: Transatlantic Challenges and Synergies
Outlook and Recommendations
About the Editors
About the Contributors
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