Germany's Development Policy as a Tool of Security Policy

Abstract

Similarly to German foreign and security policy, Berlin’s international development policy shows ambivalent tendencies. During the last decade, German development policy has been embedded as a tool into the country’s broader security policy. Nevertheless, Berlin’s development policy can be characterised by incoherence in general, due to the diverging interests of several actors participating in its formation. The biggest recipients of Germany’s Official Development Aid are China, India, Afghanistan, Morocco and Indonesia, while Syria and Turkey joined this group only after 2012–2013. The German support towards these countries is based on traditional development policy considerations (environment protection, renewable resources) and economic interests (credit and investment), as well as on its importance from the perspective of security and migration policy (especially after 2015).