Abstract
This article wants to discuss this question why German foreign policy
has an ambivalent character and no grand strategy. To answer this
question, I focus on the domestic level to draw up a profile of the
German foreign policy making process. For the analysis content analysis
is used as a research method in order to examine the legitimate actors
who make foreign policy decisions and determine the guidelines of German
foreign policy. In summary, German politics is divided between a
value-oriented and an interest-based, and federal and central foreign
policy, and the Basic Law provides no conclusive regulation on the
foreign policy, which has already led to conflicts between the Federal
Government and the Federal States, the Federal Government and the
Bundestag and coalition parties in the government.