What was the world supposed to look like after the end of the Cold War? In German foreign policy, the focus was on shaping Europe with the Treaty of Maastricht and establishing a security system that would preserve the balance of Germany's relationship with the crumbling USSR and the states in Central and Eastern Europe. The Golf War and attempts to prevent the Yugoslav conflict presented further challenges.

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Matthias Peter, Christoph Johannes Franzen, Tim Szatkowski, Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History, Munich-Berlin, Germany.