title: German Security Policy In Post-Yalta Europe
abstract: The turbulence of alliance relations and the uncertainties of the East-West conflict between 1949 and 1989 appear, in retrospect, to encompass a long period of continuity, certainty, and stability. The content and direction of German security policy were narrowly circumscribed by the Federal Republic’s membership in North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and dependence upon the United States, and they were defined by the need to contain Soviet power in Europe. The redefinition of Germany secu