Decolonise Europe: Germany Needs True Reunification

By Ulrike Reisner & Edouard Husson.

Despite reunification, a rift continues to run through Germany: While foreign rule in East Germany ended at the time of reunification, it has continued throughout the country ever since, coming from the West. Germany is still a militarily occupied country. A new book, published by French historian Edouard Husson and Austrian political scientist Ulrike Reisner, shows that Germany’s foreign rule prevents true reunification. In the new multipolar world order, it is even an obstacle to European unity.

In their newly published book, Edouard Husson, a native of France, and Ulrike Reisner, a native of Austria, take a special look at Germany after the 2025 federal elections. They explore the political division in Germany, whose roots go back a long way. The authors trace the broad outlines of Germany's foreign and economic policy and highlight examples of misguided decisions made in recent decades. The apparent geopolitical timidity that German politics has long been accused of in Europe is critically assessed in an evaluation of Euro-Atlantic alliance policy since the end of the Cold War. The authors attempt to show that the special relationship between the United States and Germany has become a decisive obstacle to the reorientation of Europe in the new multipolar world order.

Ongoing US hegemony

70 years after the Federal Republic of Germany joined the North Atlantic Pact, 70 years after the Warsaw Pact was founded, the authors resume that Europe finds itself in an almost paradoxical situation: on the one hand, it has had to continue to submit politically like a colony under the hegemonic influence of the USA and has been unable to participate in new developments in other regions of the world - on the contrary, it has participated in numerous proxy wars of the United States.

On the other hand, since 1945, Europe has logically never succeeded in developing independently and autonomously, like the founding members of the BRICS states, Brazil, China, Russia, India or South Africa, for example. As a result, Europe - together with the United States - has also hindered the development and growth of the United Nations. It has made a decisive contribution to paralysing the United Nations by practising a policy of alignment with the American and British vetoes in the Security Council - through a France that remained less and less faithful to General de Gaulle's policy.

According to Edouard Husson and Ulrike Reisner the most important common political task would be for Europe to free itself from foreign military bases of non-European states and no longer belong to military alliances with non-European states. Instead, Europe should concentrate its military and security policy interests on safeguarding European security and sovereignty and on implementing and supporting tasks and decisions within the framework of the United Nations.

The centre of Europe has a key role to play in this development with the decolonisation and true reunification of Germany. If Germany is unable to accomplish this task, the colonial divide in the centre of Europe will remain in place, with the recognisable consequence of a continued weakening of Germany and the threat of European disintegration, the authors say. If Germany's and Europe's leading political elites continue to make the mistake of only betting on one card, namely the dependent, transatlantic one, they will come to the bitter realisation that they will end up in a new conflict-ridden peripheral zone of the new multipolar world order, namely between the BRICS states and the United States, as their deployment zone and counter-wall in the event of war.

The book has already been published in German and English, and the French version is about to be released. In addition, a complete translation of the book into Russian is available in PDF format from the Brennus Institute.

Decolonise Europe – Germany Needs True Reunification

Edouard Husson & Ulrike Reisner

Brennus Institute

ISBN: 9783819092923

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