The Concept of Security in Traditional and Alternative Parties on the Examples of CDU/CSU and Bündnis 90/Grünen in Germany

No.4(2001)

Abstract
The article deals with the issue of security policy in Federal Republic of Germany. It is possible to observe, that traditional political parties have inclined to realistic paradigm of security, and alternative political parties (green, environmental and feminist) to wide paradigm of security. Testing this hypothesis on the example of security policy of Bündnis 90/Grünen (alternative party) and CUD/CSU (traditional party) in Germany hasn’t disprove this hypothesis. But it is impossible for the time being to argue that the tested hypothesis is true, because we have tested it only on the example of Germany. The hypothesis about inclination of traditional parties to realistic school of security and alternative parties to wide school of security should be tested on many countries as possible to increase the probabilities of it being true. We are not able at this stage of research to establish the causal relations and causes of the observed phenomenon. At this stage of research we need to accommodate more empirical data and test the proposed hypothesis. During later phases of research we can try to detect causal relations.
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