Appetite of the wolf: German foreign assistance for central and eastern Europe

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In this article we examine German foreign aid for central and eastern Europe in order to determine which foreign policy course Germany is likely to pursue. We outline the dominant debates over German foreign policy, review German aid programmes to eastern Europe, define the patterns evident within these policies and then analyse their key characteristics in relation to these on‐going debates. In our conclusion we then compare the predictions from the dominant positions to the evidence we present about Germany's foreign aid programme to determine which scenario seems most likely. We suggest that Germany has accommodated its own policies to the institutions of supranational organisation and the interests of its members. Insofar as Germany heeds the advice of its EU partners, articulates its vision of a stable and prosperous Europe, and leads its more reluctant peers and populace in this direction, central and eastern Europe has little to fear from a normalised Federal Republic.