چکیده:
The end of the Cold War changed Germany's political geography and increased its international clout. Germany's reunification and its easier access to the political and economic space of Central and Eastern Europe enhanced Germany’s overall power within the European Union. With its increasing economic strength and robust exporting capacity، it was poised to emerge as an even greater international actor in the global arena، although its strengths were markedly different from those of traditional great powers such as Russia and the United States. The new Germany's global capacity led to the redefinition of its external relations with many countries including Iran. This article attempts to analyze Germany's evolving geopolitical power dynamic and its implications for relations between the EU and Iran which in turn experienced a similar upsurge in potential opportunities with the collapse of the Soviet Union and the regaining of access to Central Asia and the Caucasus which had been integral parts of the Persian Empire until the first quarter of the 19 century.
خلاصه ماشینی:
The primary question of this research is that given Germany's changing national dynamic in the post-Cold War era and its increasing influence in the EU, what is the role of Germany in EU foreign policy formulation towards Iran?
Now, with the passage of two decades since the adoption of the Maastricht Treaty and while Germany's foreign and economic policy has steadily matured, it is evident for European analysts that the common foreign and security policy has led to the expansion of Germany's influence at the international level; expansion of the EU to the east has opened markets in central and Eastern Europe to Germany's export-driven economy; and launching a single European currency has led to the elimination of trade barriers and consequently to an increase in German exports to the EU amounting to 62.
In a speech made by Klaus Kinkel, then German minister of foreign affairs, on May 8, 1996, at an annual Jewish conference in Washington and in the presence of American political and security officials: Kinkle noted, " The Federal Republic of Germany has determined its foreign policy towards Iran and along these lines, it must maintain its friendly and traditional relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran to realize its policies and to play a role in the Persian Gulf, the Middle East, Central Asia and the Caucasus, the Mediterranean region and North Africa.