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This article explores how geopolitics, in various forms, became & remains central to Germany's self-conception. We follow the traces of geopolitics into the post-1990 unification era, examining the shift from a self-conscious reframing of a traditional territorially linked geopolitics in the early 1990s to recent rhetorical attempts to transcend the perceived curse of Germany's middle position in Europe. This holds out the prospect of opening up new geopolitical perspectives, where a "new geopolitics" will be an attempt to "re-position" Germany within an international system whose marks are set by globalization & its privileging of the temporal over the spatial. Yet since globalization is the outgrowth of a territorially based nation-state system, a new geopolitics faces risks & traps no less maddening than the old. In our final discussion we touch on Germany's special relation to Eastern Europe, EU foreign policy goals, & the changing role of Germany's military. Adapted from the source document.