Germany as a geo-economic power

Washington Quarterly

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 31-45

  Kundnani, Hans ^a  

^a European Council on Foreign Relations   (United States)

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EID: 79959546851     PISSN: 0163660X     EISSN: 15309177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0163660X.2011.587950     Document Type: Article

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16. For the full text of the judgment, see http://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/entscheidungen/es20090630_2bve000208en.html
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19. Ibid., p. 6.
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25. Garton Ash writes that "Germany has become a 'normal' nation, like France and Britain."
26. Robert Gates, speech at the National Defense University, Washington, D.C., February 23, 2010, http://www.defense.gov/speeches/speech.aspx?speechid_1423.
27. I am grateful to James Rogers for this point.
28. Edward Luttwak, "From geopolitics to geo-economics," The National Interest, Summer 1990, pp. 17-24.
29. Reprinted in The New Shape of World Politics (New York: Norton, 1999), pp. 177-186. Here p. 177.
30. Ibid., p. 178.
31. Ibid., p. 180.
32. Ibid., p. 177.
33. Ibid., p. 184.
34. Ibid., p. 185.
35. Ibid.
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37. Luttwak, "From geopolitics to geo-economics," The New Shape of World Politics, p. 183.
38. Mark Leonard, What Does China Think? (London: PublicAffairs, 2008), pp. 84-86.