April 2013
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Zeitschrift für Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik
With the Bundestag elections of September 2013 in mind, this issue assembles the foreign policy guidelines of the Bundestag factions. The parties lay out in which areas they distinguish challenges to German foreign policy. The editors intended to put a focus on these policy areas: solutions to the Euro crisis and strategies for the future of Europe, relations to the United States, Russia and China, Germany’s membership in international organizations, German interests in current conflicts, and the need for reforming structures of German foreign politics. The following analysis is by Rainer Brüderle, faction leader of the Free Democratic Party.