Germany's EU Policy on Asylum and Defence

Since the end of the Cold War and re-unification, Germany's policy toward and within the European Union has undergone significant changes. Once a model "Europeanist", Germany has become increasingly reluctant to support the progressive implementation of key projects of European integration. Integrating insights from foreign policy analysis, integration theory, and social theory and providing an in-depth analysis of both refugee and security policy, this book develops an innovative framework for analysis that is capable of accounting for incremental changes in Germany's EU policy, which, over time, amount to the image of a de-Europeanization by default.