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Bismarck: Foreign Policy (2)
- Will to Power
- Unremitting drive to master men and events
that made him the dominant statesmen of his
time not only in Germany but in Europe.
- He himself provided the best testimony of his characteristic in
his famous letter of 1938: 'My ambition strives more to
command than to obey'.
- He himself provided the best testimony of his characteristic in
his famous letter of 1938: 'My ambition strives more to
command than to obey'.
- Within nine years after he
gained power in 1862
hechanged the face of Germany
and Europe. After 1871 he
considered Germany to be a
satiated power, and hence his
foreign policy during the last few
decades was essentially
unaggressive (except for the
aquisition of colonies)
- The one period of his life when his drive for power seems
somewhat abated - from 1833, when he quite the civil service,
to 1847, when he commenced his political career. During these
years he managed the family estates. While he was successful
at these activitiwesa, the life did not satisfy him. He drank,
gambled, hunted, travelled.
- The one period of his life when his drive for power seems
somewhat abated - from 1833, when he quite the civil service,
to 1847, when he commenced his political career. During these
years he managed the family estates. While he was successful
at these activitiwesa, the life did not satisfy him. He drank,
gambled, hunted, travelled.
- Unremitting drive to master men and events
that made him the dominant statesmen of his
time not only in Germany but in Europe.
- Evocation of a Proxy
- Bismarck projected his quest for power and renown onto the Prussian state.
- Psychoanalytic model
- Dangers in using the psa model is the temptation to extrapolate from the known into the unknown and
unknowable. This a psanalysist may feel free to do, but not the historian. The value of the model is not that it
permits us to peer into the depths of a personality beyond the limits of the evidence available, but that it
enables us to make more sense out of the evidence we have by establishing relationships, both actual and
possible, that might not otherwise be observed. We cannot reconstruct the exact nature of Bismarck of his
parents, but we can discern how it affected him.
- Dangers in using the psa model is the temptation to extrapolate from the known into the unknown and
unknowable. This a psanalysist may feel free to do, but not the historian. The value of the model is not that it
permits us to peer into the depths of a personality beyond the limits of the evidence available, but that it
enables us to make more sense out of the evidence we have by establishing relationships, both actual and
possible, that might not otherwise be observed. We cannot reconstruct the exact nature of Bismarck of his
parents, but we can discern how it affected him.
- Bismarck projected his quest for power and renown onto the Prussian state.
- HIs background: Bismarck, it is often asserted, did not
covet power for its own sake. On the contrary, his
religion, his aristocraic background, his traditional view
of the art of stagecraft, imposed restraints. He belonged
to the school of classical politics that believed foreign
and military policy must be dictated by the reasoned
interest of the state and pursued within the limits of the
balance of power system
- This ethic elevated him
above the temptation of
personal
aggrandizement and
shielded him from the
passions of ideology
and irrational influence
of popular movements.
- Bismarck never again
spoke or wrote so
frankly of his wish to
'command, to be
admired and to
become famous' as
he did in his letter of
1938. During his
political career he saw
himself as a servant of
the King.
- This ethic elevated him
above the temptation of
personal
aggrandizement and
shielded him from the
passions of ideology
and irrational influence
of popular movements.
- Probably the greatest
cost to germany of
nearly three decades of
bismarck's rule was the
caliber of men who
governed Germany
once he was gone. The
environment he created
did not encourage men
of independent spirit
and judgement to
undertake in public
careers.
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