Unified Germany’s West(europa)politik at a ‘Time Which as yet Has no Name’

West(europa)politik had formed the core of West Germany’s foreign political direction during the Cold War. So, when the unified Germany declared in 1990 that its anchor was in the institutional West, this statement was firmly based on Bonn’s former political line. Still, doubts arose: would the new Germany remain committed to the Western orientation of the Bonn republic? And how would unified Germany go about finding and defining its new role in a changing Europe? Whether the qualms about Germany underlying these questions were justified or not will be explored below.