German Trade Policy: The Decline of Liberal Leadership

Falke, Andreas

doi:10.1057/9780230504189_13

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“…As the EU's leading trading nation, with roughly one-third of its GDP dependent on exports, Germany has traditionally been an advocate of trade liberalization. This traditional role was softened during the Red-Green Coalition (1998 of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder with the inclusion of environmental and social standards in Germany's trade agenda (Falke, 2006). However, even under the tenure of the last Red-Green Minister of the Economy, Wolfgang Clement (his Ministry being responsible for trade policy), Germany had returned slowly to its traditional position.…”

Section: German Leadership Projectmentioning

confidence: 99%

Leaders in need of followers: Emerging powers in global governance

Schirm¹

2009

European Journal of International Relations

140

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Emerging powers such as Brazil and Germany increasingly articulate their desire for leadership in global governance. Examples comprise the bids for permanent membership in the UN Security Council and the founding of the G20 at the WTO meeting in Cancùn. Emerging powers, however, often fail to achieve their goals. This article focuses on followership as a core condition for success and failure of emerging power leadership in global governance. I argue that in order to perform successfully, any leadership must be accepted by followers and that followership depends on the credible inclusion of the interests and/or ideas of potential followers into the leadership project. This argument is tested in case studies on Brazil’s and Germany’s bids for structural power in the UNSC, for directorship in international organizations and for policy positions in the WTO trade negotiations.

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Section: German Leadership Projectmentioning

confidence: 99%