Germany’s Exit from History?

Ludger Kühnhardt

Center for European Integration Studies

Ludger Kühnhardt is director at the Center for European Integration Studies (ZEI) at Bonn.

Buffeted by European and global headwinds, many in Germany wish for their country to “exit from history” and chart a more peaceful and insular course. But as Ludger Kühnhardt, Director at the Center for European Integration Studies at Universität Bonn and a regular contributor to the Advisor, argues, Germany can only engineer a good future for its people as an engine of further European integration, as a partner of the United States and as a defender of universal human rights. This essay originally appeared in the June 14, 2011, edition of The Globalist.

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