COMMITMENTS FOR PEACE
_German security policy states that the Federal government today will address threats wherever they arise. This is based on the concept of networked security; which dictates that military and civilian resources will supplement each other to ensure peace and stability.
Not primarily military, but social, economic, ecological and cultural conditions that can only be implemented through multinational co-operation and channels, determine the security policy development. Security can therefore be neither purely national nor guaranteed by military forces alone. Instead, it requires a far more comprehensive approach.
Germany uses its influence in the relevant international and supranational organizations - from the United Nations, the European Union, the North Atlantic Alliance, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank up to the G20 framework - in order to improve coherence and effectiveness of the community.
A comprehensive picture of the situation and a subsequent anabolic common operational understanding of all stakeholders form the basis for any security policy decision at national and international level. In preparing the national level of visibility it requires a cross-departmental approach that considers all aspects and possibilities. As a step in this direction the cooperation of the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) and the Military Intelligence of the Bundeswehr has been further intensified.
To establish an interagency network structure, the Federal government established the Crisis Response Center of the Foreign Office (CRCFO); which is tasked to respond to and provide guidance during a national of international crisis. The CRCFO will have military and non-military assets at its disposal, but ultimately the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will decide if military assets will be deployed abroad.
Not primarily military, but social, economic, ecological and cultural conditions that can only be implemented through multinational co-operation and channels, determine the security policy development. Security can therefore be neither purely national nor guaranteed by military forces alone. Instead, it requires a far more comprehensive approach.
Germany uses its influence in the relevant international and supranational organizations - from the United Nations, the European Union, the North Atlantic Alliance, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank up to the G20 framework - in order to improve coherence and effectiveness of the community.
A comprehensive picture of the situation and a subsequent anabolic common operational understanding of all stakeholders form the basis for any security policy decision at national and international level. In preparing the national level of visibility it requires a cross-departmental approach that considers all aspects and possibilities. As a step in this direction the cooperation of the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) and the Military Intelligence of the Bundeswehr has been further intensified.
To establish an interagency network structure, the Federal government established the Crisis Response Center of the Foreign Office (CRCFO); which is tasked to respond to and provide guidance during a national of international crisis. The CRCFO will have military and non-military assets at its disposal, but ultimately the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will decide if military assets will be deployed abroad.