Trading with the Frenemy: German Arms Exports to the Russian Federation in the Interlude Between the Russo-Georgian War of 2008 and the Ukraine Crisis of 2014

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International Relations (MA)

Wannee, Brian (2022)

Trading with the Frenemy: German Arms Exports to the Russian Federation in the Interlude Between the Russo-Georgian War of 2008 and the Ukraine Crisis of 2014

Master thesis | International Relations (MA)

This thesis investigates how the German Federal Government lives up to its normative and international commitments and initiatives to harmonize arms export controls. By analyzing existing data from the Federal Government’s yearly reports on its policy on exports of conventional military equipment and applying the International Relations Theories of Neorealism and Neoliberalism, it highlights the inseparability of arms export policy frameworks and foreign and security policy interests in the case of Germany. Furthermore, this thesis calls attention to the hierarchical structure that exists within this inseparability where the country’s arms export policy framework is given a secondary role to its foreign and security interests.