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To Deploy or Not to Deploy a Parliamentary Army? German Strategic Culture and International Military Operations

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European Participation in International Operations

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The third chapter examines German strategic culture and decisions to participate (eventually two) or not to participate (eventually two) in the military operations analysed in this book. The chapter highlights the importance of the German parliament and society at large in deliberations that precede decisions to participate in international military operations. It also shows how strained the domestic political process can become when there is a perceived international pressure to act from peer states in NATO and the EU. However, it also illustrates that the normative framework, even though many Germans oppose military participation abroad in principle, is not as consistent as might be assumed, and that some voices actually favour Germany accepting a bigger responsibility in international security.

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Bergstrand, A., Engelbrekt, K. (2016). To Deploy or Not to Deploy a Parliamentary Army? German Strategic Culture and International Military Operations. In: Britz, M. (eds) European Participation in International Operations . New Security Challenges. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39759-7_3

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