Stephen F. Szabo is Executive Director of the Transatlantic Academy, an independent research institute based at the German Marshall Fund of the United States in Washington DC, USA. He is the author of numerous books and articles focusing on Transatlantic relations and German foreign policy including Parting Ways: The Crisis in German-American Relations (2004).

An original and indispensable corrective to the overly political-military focus of most writing on Europe, Russia, and global politics.

• AcknowledgementsChapter 1: The Foreign Policy of Germany Inc.Drang Nach OstenTrading State vs Civilian PowerGermany as a Reemerging PowerGermany as a Geo-Economic PowerAdapting Ostpolitik to GlobalizationChapter2 : Germans and RussiansGerman Images of RussiaHistorical ContextContemporary German Public Opinion on RussiaThe Russian Image in the German MediaGermans and Russian DemocracyChapter 3: Who makes Russia policy?The Political Parties and the BundestagInside the German GovernmentGerman BusinessThe Role of German Think Tanks, Political Foundations and AcademiaChapter 4: Doing Business with Russia Inc.Dealing with the Devil: German Business in RussiaThe Costs of CorruptionThe Case of Siemens AGGazprom in GermanyThe Gazprom German TeamImplications of the Energy RevolutionChapter 5: Security and Geo-EconomicsThe Geopolitics of Geo-economicsMilitary Force: Nein DankeDefending Germany Inc.The Resource and Markets ImperativeThe Merkel Doctrine and Arms ExportsDrones and German SecurityCyber Security and Industrial EspionageRussia and German SecurityChapter 6: Germany’s Russlandpolitik: Implications for The United States, Poland and EuropeRussia as the Centerpiece in the German-American RelationshipThe Legacy of 1989 in Germany and the United StatesGerman and American Publics and RussiaAssymetrical Economic StakesThe German-American Strategic DebateStrategic Options for the United StatesPoland’s Resets with Germany and RussiaThe Role of the European UnionIn the Wake of the Ukraine CrisisChapter 7: Conclusions: Germany the Shaping PowerFuture Scenarios for German-Russian RelationsGermany and the Geo-Economic WorldGermany as a Shaping PowerSelect BibliographyIndex

Stephen F. Szabo is Executive Director of the Transatlantic Academy, an independent research institute based at the German Marshall Fund of the United States in Washington DC, USA. He is the author of numerous books and articles focusing on Transatlantic relations and German foreign policy including Parting Ways: The Crisis in German-American Relations (2004).

An original and indispensable corrective to the overly political-military focus of most writing on Europe, Russia, and global politics.

• AcknowledgementsChapter 1: The Foreign Policy of Germany Inc.Drang Nach OstenTrading State vs Civilian PowerGermany as a Reemerging PowerGermany as a Geo-Economic PowerAdapting Ostpolitik to GlobalizationChapter2 : Germans and RussiansGerman Images of RussiaHistorical ContextContemporary German Public Opinion on RussiaThe Russian Image in the German MediaGermans and Russian DemocracyChapter 3: Who makes Russia policy?The Political Parties and the BundestagInside the German GovernmentGerman BusinessThe Role of German Think Tanks, Political Foundations and AcademiaChapter 4: Doing Business with Russia Inc.Dealing with the Devil: German Business in RussiaThe Costs of CorruptionThe Case of Siemens AGGazprom in GermanyThe Gazprom German TeamImplications of the Energy RevolutionChapter 5: Security and Geo-EconomicsThe Geopolitics of Geo-economicsMilitary Force: Nein DankeDefending Germany Inc.The Resource and Markets ImperativeThe Merkel Doctrine and Arms ExportsDrones and German SecurityCyber Security and Industrial EspionageRussia and German SecurityChapter 6: Germany’s Russlandpolitik: Implications for The United States, Poland and EuropeRussia as the Centerpiece in the German-American RelationshipThe Legacy of 1989 in Germany and the United StatesGerman and American Publics and RussiaAssymetrical Economic StakesThe German-American Strategic DebateStrategic Options for the United StatesPoland’s Resets with Germany and RussiaThe Role of the European UnionIn the Wake of the Ukraine CrisisChapter 7: Conclusions: Germany the Shaping PowerFuture Scenarios for German-Russian RelationsGermany and the Geo-Economic WorldGermany as a Shaping PowerSelect BibliographyIndex

Stephen F. Szabo is Executive Director of the Transatlantic Academy, an independent research institute based at the German Marshall Fund of the United States in Washington DC, USA. He is the author of numerous books and articles focusing on Transatlantic relations and German foreign policy including Parting Ways: The Crisis in German-American Relations (2004).

An original and indispensable corrective to the overly political-military focus of most writing on Europe, Russia, and global politics.

• AcknowledgementsChapter 1: The Foreign Policy of Germany Inc.Drang Nach OstenTrading State vs Civilian PowerGermany as a Reemerging PowerGermany as a Geo-Economic PowerAdapting Ostpolitik to GlobalizationChapter2 : Germans and RussiansGerman Images of RussiaHistorical ContextContemporary German Public Opinion on RussiaThe Russian Image in the German MediaGermans and Russian DemocracyChapter 3: Who makes Russia policy?The Political Parties and the BundestagInside the German GovernmentGerman BusinessThe Role of German Think Tanks, Political Foundations and AcademiaChapter 4: Doing Business with Russia Inc.Dealing with the Devil: German Business in RussiaThe Costs of CorruptionThe Case of Siemens AGGazprom in GermanyThe Gazprom German TeamImplications of the Energy RevolutionChapter 5: Security and Geo-EconomicsThe Geopolitics of Geo-economicsMilitary Force: Nein DankeDefending Germany Inc.The Resource and Markets ImperativeThe Merkel Doctrine and Arms ExportsDrones and German SecurityCyber Security and Industrial EspionageRussia and German SecurityChapter 6: Germany’s Russlandpolitik: Implications for The United States, Poland and EuropeRussia as the Centerpiece in the German-American RelationshipThe Legacy of 1989 in Germany and the United StatesGerman and American Publics and RussiaAssymetrical Economic StakesThe German-American Strategic DebateStrategic Options for the United StatesPoland’s Resets with Germany and RussiaThe Role of the European UnionIn the Wake of the Ukraine CrisisChapter 7: Conclusions: Germany the Shaping PowerFuture Scenarios for German-Russian RelationsGermany and the Geo-Economic WorldGermany as a Shaping PowerSelect BibliographyIndex