“An Economic giant but a political dwarf.“ This quote by Henry Kissinger has for a long time been rather true in order to describe Germanys place on the world stage. In my Essay I will try to give an outlined summery of the political situation since the reunification of the Country. Furthermore I will mention trough my arguments Germanys weaknesses and disadvantages which made and still make it hard for the country to compete in …showed first 75 words of 2039 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2039 total…to take the necessary security measures and thus pushing forward the attempts to create a coherent ESDP, it virtually has – due to its fiscal problems – to accept a blue letter form the EU obeying the stability criteria. Bibliography: J.Steans, International Relations: Perspectives and themes, longman, 2001 T.McCraw, Creating modern capitalism,Harvard Press,2000 C.Menschel, Grosse Taten und kleine Leute, BadenBaden,1999 Carr.E.H. What is History? ,MIT press, 2000 www.auswaertiges-amt.de www.Bundesregierung.de