Transformation of transatlantic cooperation: The United States and Germany in NATO (1980)
Politics in the 21st century is algorithmized and developed on the basis of the algorithms developed. A broad network of institutions and their complex structure make scientific research into these algorithms difficult. The problem can be solved by applying the historical-political methodology. According to the author, this methodology includes the research of important phenomena, the content and time of the tradition, the development and structure of the processes. The author interprets transformations of transatlantic cooperation statically (state of the phenomena) and dynamically (hierarchy of factors and development of political algorithms). Since the conclusions are drawn from the example of relations between the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany in 1980, they can therefore only be viewed as hypotheses. At this stage of the research it is already clear that strategic plans of the Alliance, so-called limiting factors of cooperation and their influence on the conception of military-political parity are of particular interest. Relations between the USA and the FRG are understood to mean a broad-based political dialogue on military and other issues that are closely related to the subject of this dialogue. Research into the problem is of practical importance. The article has a discussion character.