@article{2014:brummer:die_begren,
title = {Die begrenzten „war powers“ des Bundestags},
year = {2014},
note = {The German Bundestag is considered as being among the national
parliaments with themost extensive “war powers” worldwide.
However, its influence on decisions about the foreigndeployment of the
German armed forces, the Bundeswehr, is not only limited by
thecompetencies of the German federal government. Rather, three
additional factors pose restrictionson the use of both formal and
informal instruments at the disposal of the Bundestagto influence
governmental decision making. Those are: (a) hesitancy on the part
ofparliamentarians from the governing coalition to voice their
concerns over foreign deployments;(b) a lack of substantive agreement
among the parliamentary groups from the oppositionwhich renders it
impossible for them to put substantial pressure on the government;and
(c) disunity among the foreign and security policy specialists across
allparliamentary groups which also prevents the Bundestag from taking
an unequivocal standon deployment decisions. The occurrence of those
restrictions is illustrated by the decisionon the participation of the
Bundeswehr in the UNIFIL mission. [ZParl, vol. 45, no. 3, pp.596 –
614]},
journal = {ZParl Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen},
pages = {596--614},
author = {Brummer, Klaus},
volume = {45},
number = {3}
}