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From the Kaiser Reich to the Berlin Republic, the weight of German foreign policyhas shifted from national greatness to international co-operation. As internationalfactors have played the major part in foreign policy making, the distinctive principleof German foreign policy has …

This dissertation asks why and under what conditions the US seeks allies for foreign military interventions and when multilateralism pays for a state with a unilateral option. It is not a study of whether to intervene or not, but rather the motivations and payoffs for hegemonic …

In the aftermath of the failure to come to a diplomatic resolution regarding Iraq in 2003, and the subsequent military strike by the United States (U.S.) and its allies without United Nations (UN) approval, the usefulness and role of international diplomatic institutions such as…

This study examines how a firm belief in the economic doctrine of multilateralism triggered a powerful policy-determining crusade within the U.S. State Department. This doctrine was fundamental to the establishment of postwar foreign policy toward Germany. It was present in 1939…