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Germany as a Kin-State: The Development and Implementation of a Norm-Consistent External Minority Policy towards Central and Eastern Europe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Karl Cordell  and
Stefan Wolff
Karl Cordell
Affiliation:
School of Law & Social Science, University of Plymouth, UK Email: K.Cordell@plymouth.ac.uk
Stefan Wolff
Affiliation:
School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham, UK Email: stefan@stefanwolff.com
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Germany's role as a kin-state of ethnic German minorities in Central and Eastern Europe stems from a number of factors. At one level it is part and parcel of a unique historical legacy. It is also inextricably linked with the country's foreign policy towards this region. The most profound policy that the Federal Republic of Germany developed in this context after the early 1960s was Ostpolitik, which contributed significantly to the peaceful end of the Cold War, but has remained relevant thereafter despite a fundamentally changed geopolitical context, as Germany remains a kin-state for hundreds of thousands of ethnic Germans across Central and Eastern Europe, particularly in the former Soviet Union, in Poland, Romania, and Hungary. As such, a policy towards these external minorities continues to form a significant, but by no means the only, manifestation of Ostpolitik.

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Nationalities Papers , Volume 35 , Issue 2 , May 2007 , pp. 289 - 315
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Copyright © 2007 Association for the Study of Nationalities 

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