Security policy of social democratic party in Germany in the time of red-green government

The author deals with security policy of social democratic party in Germany in the years 1998-2002. This article attempts to test a hypothesis about the inclination of traditional political parties to realistic school of security on the example of SPD. This hypothesis have been disproofed, because the research has shown that Germany social democratic party has inclined to the wide school of security and not to realistic school of security. In the next research it will be necessacy to modify this hypothesis to be able to explain the acquired facts about inclination of SPD to the wide school of security. In connection with testing the hypothesis about inclination of traditional political parties to realistic school of security this article shoves the main outlines of German social democratic security policy and analyzes the main differences between the its security policy and security policy of United States, which is very important for prediction of developing of security situation in Europe. Results of research have shown that Germany security policy of the government of red-green coalition has continued in the main outlines of security policy of last government (CDU/CSU and FDP), of course with small differences. The red-green coalition has put its emphasis on crises prevention, civil crises management, respect for human rights in the world reinforcement of international security organizations (UN and EU), continuation of the transatlantic security link, control of armament, cooperation with Russia and reform of armed forces.