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The article discusses the role of the German political foundations in German Foreign policy both on a theoretical and a practical level. It introduces the academic approach of Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA) and describes the character of the foundations’ international by also giving examples of their work in Israel and the Palestinian Territories. The question discussed is whether the foundations a just payers funding projects abroad just financially or if they are real players with influence on both—German politicians and local partners.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    For detailed information please read the opening chapter of this publication.

  2. 2.

    The FES was founded in 1925 as an inheritance of Friedrich Ebert, the first president of Germany in the Weimarer Republic, who wanted a foundation in order to foster the education of people from the working class.

  3. 3.

    The Socialist International (SI) is a worldwide association of social democratic political parties formed in 1951. Initially dominated by parties from Western Europe, it has grown to include 153 member parties from over 100 countries (Lamb and Docherty 2015).

  4. 4.

    The three factors were developed by Diane Stone and Heidi Ullrich in order to describe the current trends and perspectives of policy research institutes and think tanks in Western Europe. They also apply—at least partially -to the international work of the German political foundations (Stone and Ullrich 2003).

  5. 5.

    The phases are similar to the general historical phases of the international work described in point 1 of this article.

  6. 6.

    See also the article of Dr. Ernst Kerbusch on the international work of the FES in this volume.

  7. 7.

    See also the article of Kerstin Müller on the work of the political foundations against the backdrop of shrinking spaces of civil society in Israel in this volume.

  8. 8.

    See also the article of Prof. Eli M. Salzberger on the new Israeli NGO law in this volume.

  9. 9.

    See also the article of Tobias Pietsch on the overload of NGOs in Israel and the Palestinian Territories in this volume.

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Konarek, K. (2018). Looking Ahead: German Political Foundations in a Globalized World. In: Abelmann, A., Konarek, K. (eds) The German Political Foundations' Work between Jerusalem, Ramallah and Tel Aviv . Edition ZfAS. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-20019-0_7

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