WOLF-DIETER EBERWEIN is Director of the Working Group of International Relations at the Science Centre for Social Research, Berlin, (WZB), Professor of Political Science at the University of Leipzig, and Scientific Director of the European Peace University Centre (EPU) in Schlaining, Austria. Recent publications deal with international system order, a German-Polish comparative elite survey on foreign policy and security issues, the relation between natural disasters so-called complex emergencies, i.e. domestic conflict, and conflict prevention. - KARL KAISER is Otto-Wolff Director of the Research Institute of the German Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin and Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Bonn. He is the author of Germany's New Foreign Policy, Volumes 1 and 2, and is co-editor of Institutions and Resources, Russia and the West and Shaping a New International Financial System. AE(00): Assistant Editor: SEBASTIAN BARTSCH

'...the book will be an invaluable reference-point for anyone wanting to understand how the foreign policy processes of Germany actually work...' - Roger Morgan, European University Institute, Florence, Italy

• List of Tables List of Figures Notes on the Contributors Preface List of Abbreviations PART I: INTRODUCTION Academic Research and Foreign Policy-Making; W.D.Eberwein & K.Kaiser PART II: INSTITUTIONS OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT Traditional Institutions of Foreign Policy; D.Siwert-Probst The 'Foreign Policies' of Specialized Ministries; L.Andreae & K.Kaiser The Federal Intelligence Service and Foreign-Policy Decision-Making; H.G.Wieck New Challenges for the Foreign Service; H.F.von Ploetz PART III: CROSS-SECTIONAL TOPICS AND FOREIGN POLICY-MAKING National Decision-Making Structures for German European Policy; W.Hoyer Security Policy: National Structures and Multilateral Integration; L.Rühl The Formulation of Economic Policy within the Context of Increasing International Integration ; H.D.Westerhoff Decision-Making in Environmental Foreign Policy; W.Fischer & P.Holtrup PART IV: POLITICAL SYSTEM, SOCIETY AND FOREIGN POLICY The Role of the Bundestag in German Foreign Policy; J.Krause External Representation of German Länder Interests; M.Knodt Foreign-Policy Influence and Transnational Relations of Political Parties; S.Bartsch Political Foundations: Linking the Worlds of Foreign Policy and Transnationalism; S.Bartsch Societal Intermediary Organizations; K.Kaiser & M.Mildenberger Mass Media, Public Opinion and Foreign Policy; F.Brettschneider Public Attitudes and Elite Attitudes: Towards a New Foreign-Policy Consensus?; C.Holst Organized Interests and Foreign Policy; J.Hartmann Policy Advice and Foreign Policy-Making; M.Mols PART V: CONCLUSION Precarious Power: Germany at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century; G.Hellman Index

WOLF-DIETER EBERWEIN is Director of the Working Group of International Relations at the Science Centre for Social Research, Berlin, (WZB), Professor of Political Science at the University of Leipzig, and Scientific Director of the European Peace University Centre (EPU) in Schlaining, Austria. Recent publications deal with international system order, a German-Polish comparative elite survey on foreign policy and security issues, the relation between natural disasters so-called complex emergencies, i.e. domestic conflict, and conflict prevention. - KARL KAISER is Otto-Wolff Director of the Research Institute of the German Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin and Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Bonn. He is the author of Germany's New Foreign Policy, Volumes 1 and 2, and is co-editor of Institutions and Resources, Russia and the West and Shaping a New International Financial System. AE(00): Assistant Editor: SEBASTIAN BARTSCH

'...the book will be an invaluable reference-point for anyone wanting to understand how the foreign policy processes of Germany actually work...' - Roger Morgan, European University Institute, Florence, Italy

• List of Tables List of Figures Notes on the Contributors Preface List of Abbreviations PART I: INTRODUCTION Academic Research and Foreign Policy-Making; W.D.Eberwein & K.Kaiser PART II: INSTITUTIONS OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT Traditional Institutions of Foreign Policy; D.Siwert-Probst The 'Foreign Policies' of Specialized Ministries; L.Andreae & K.Kaiser The Federal Intelligence Service and Foreign-Policy Decision-Making; H.G.Wieck New Challenges for the Foreign Service; H.F.von Ploetz PART III: CROSS-SECTIONAL TOPICS AND FOREIGN POLICY-MAKING National Decision-Making Structures for German European Policy; W.Hoyer Security Policy: National Structures and Multilateral Integration; L.Rühl The Formulation of Economic Policy within the Context of Increasing International Integration ; H.D.Westerhoff Decision-Making in Environmental Foreign Policy; W.Fischer & P.Holtrup PART IV: POLITICAL SYSTEM, SOCIETY AND FOREIGN POLICY The Role of the Bundestag in German Foreign Policy; J.Krause External Representation of German Länder Interests; M.Knodt Foreign-Policy Influence and Transnational Relations of Political Parties; S.Bartsch Political Foundations: Linking the Worlds of Foreign Policy and Transnationalism; S.Bartsch Societal Intermediary Organizations; K.Kaiser & M.Mildenberger Mass Media, Public Opinion and Foreign Policy; F.Brettschneider Public Attitudes and Elite Attitudes: Towards a New Foreign-Policy Consensus?; C.Holst Organized Interests and Foreign Policy; J.Hartmann Policy Advice and Foreign Policy-Making; M.Mols PART V: CONCLUSION Precarious Power: Germany at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century; G.Hellman Index

WOLF-DIETER EBERWEIN is Director of the Working Group of International Relations at the Science Centre for Social Research, Berlin, (WZB), Professor of Political Science at the University of Leipzig, and Scientific Director of the European Peace University Centre (EPU) in Schlaining, Austria. Recent publications deal with international system order, a German-Polish comparative elite survey on foreign policy and security issues, the relation between natural disasters so-called complex emergencies, i.e. domestic conflict, and conflict prevention. - KARL KAISER is Otto-Wolff Director of the Research Institute of the German Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin and Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Bonn. He is the author of Germany's New Foreign Policy, Volumes 1 and 2, and is co-editor of Institutions and Resources, Russia and the West and Shaping a New International Financial System. AE(00): Assistant Editor: SEBASTIAN BARTSCH

'...the book will be an invaluable reference-point for anyone wanting to understand how the foreign policy processes of Germany actually work...' - Roger Morgan, European University Institute, Florence, Italy

• List of Tables List of Figures Notes on the Contributors Preface List of Abbreviations PART I: INTRODUCTION Academic Research and Foreign Policy-Making; W.D.Eberwein & K.Kaiser PART II: INSTITUTIONS OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT Traditional Institutions of Foreign Policy; D.Siwert-Probst The 'Foreign Policies' of Specialized Ministries; L.Andreae & K.Kaiser The Federal Intelligence Service and Foreign-Policy Decision-Making; H.G.Wieck New Challenges for the Foreign Service; H.F.von Ploetz PART III: CROSS-SECTIONAL TOPICS AND FOREIGN POLICY-MAKING National Decision-Making Structures for German European Policy; W.Hoyer Security Policy: National Structures and Multilateral Integration; L.Rühl The Formulation of Economic Policy within the Context of Increasing International Integration ; H.D.Westerhoff Decision-Making in Environmental Foreign Policy; W.Fischer & P.Holtrup PART IV: POLITICAL SYSTEM, SOCIETY AND FOREIGN POLICY The Role of the Bundestag in German Foreign Policy; J.Krause External Representation of German Länder Interests; M.Knodt Foreign-Policy Influence and Transnational Relations of Political Parties; S.Bartsch Political Foundations: Linking the Worlds of Foreign Policy and Transnationalism; S.Bartsch Societal Intermediary Organizations; K.Kaiser & M.Mildenberger Mass Media, Public Opinion and Foreign Policy; F.Brettschneider Public Attitudes and Elite Attitudes: Towards a New Foreign-Policy Consensus?; C.Holst Organized Interests and Foreign Policy; J.Hartmann Policy Advice and Foreign Policy-Making; M.Mols PART V: CONCLUSION Precarious Power: Germany at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century; G.Hellman Index