The New Ostpolitik: The Implement Of Multilateralism In All-Around Way By FRG

As the diplomatic orientation of sovereign state, the multilateralism in the government led by Chancellor Adenauer had played a vital role for West Germany in restoring the sovereignty status and entering the West Union. However, related to the 1960's, the interrelationship between the East and the West had improved. The foreign policy that the multilateral principle had only started in the western allies faced the challenges.According to the change of the international politics and the national development demand, the Brandt government initiated the New Ostpolitik, which comprehensively carried out the multilateralism. The New Ostpolitik realized the improvement with Soviet Union's relationship, normalized the interrelationship with Eastern European various countries, and temporarily solved the identity problem about the two Germanys and so on. It was helpful for West Germany to win the more free diplomatic space, obtain the relative equal status with US, and become the main strength to impel theEuropean integration advancement.Actually, the New Ostpolitik extended with a remarkable continuity into 1980s. The new chancellors of unified Germany still have announced the adherence to multilateralism. On the one hand, this is the intrinsic need that the modern Germany nationality develops, and indicates that the success of this diplomacy needs the overall peace and the communal development actuation.