Does German Foreign Policy Whitewash the World?
Eberhard Sandschneider, 54, head of the research institute of the German Council on Foreign Relations, goes even a step further. “German foreign policy will have to slaughter several sacred cows after the election,” he says. The world Sandschneider describes is not a pleasant place. He believes that reforming the United Nations is an illusion, and that the establishment of a new world government headed by the G-20 group is nothing but a pleasant dream. “All that we will see in the future is the creation of temporary alliances in varying configurations,” says Sandschneider. Germans and Europeans, he says, should get used to the idea, so they won’t run out of steam when confronted with the maneuverings of the powerful – the Americans, Russians, Chinese and Indians. In Sandschneider’s view of the world, the protection of human rights has “served its time as a maxim of foreign policy.” Interests will dominate over values, he says, or else the West will be unable to find a common basis for
