German Arms Exports as Part of a Coherent Foreign and Security Strategy - From case-by-case ad hoc practice to law-based export policy

German Arms Exports as Part of a Coherent Foreign and Security Strategy - From case-by-case ad hoc practice to law-based export policy Wallraff, Arnold Author aut Text xx# 2022 Verfassungsblog 2022-03-20 eng The analysis of Germany’s strategic restraint to date is of double importance for German arms export policy. First, what has been and continues to be apparent here is a strategic reticence in the sense of a strategy deficit and, above all, a deficit in the culture of debate – both with regard to parliament and to the general public and the media. Additionally – and here lies the difference to Germany’s general military restraint – Germany, and all German governments in recent years and decades, have supplied war weapons and other armaments to all regions of the world on a very substantial scale, without such a basis for discussion, strategy or action. CC BY-SA 4.0 Wallraff, Arnold German foreign policy Security Strategy 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/german-arms-exports-as-part-of-a-coherent-foreign-and-security-strategy/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.17176/20220411-011059-0 220320 10.17176/20220411-011059-0 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)