Abstract

DAEHNHARDT, Patricia  and  RESENDE, Madalena Meyer. Angela Merkel and Germany’s foreign policy: relations with Europe, the United States, Russia and China. Relações Internacionais [online]. 2021, n.70, pp.11-31.  Epub Aug 31, 2021. ISSN 1645-9199.  https://doi.org/10.23906/ri2021.70a02.

Angela Merkel and Germany’s foreign policy: relations with Europe, the United States, Russia and China

This article takes stock of the 16 years of Angela Merkel’s foreign policy, at a time when the international system suffers from strong hegemonic competition between the USA and China. In the absence of a “grand foreign policy strategy”, Merkel’s method of reacting to crises is characterised by mediation and equidistance and elevated Germany to a central power in the EU. However, in the con‑ text of the increasingly fierce competition among great powers, this equidistance was increasingly seen as a sign of weakness and lack of strategic vision, resulting in Germany being characterized as an “uncertain power”.

Keywords : Germany; foreign policy; Angela Merkel; semi‑hegemony.

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