German Greens on the background of the disputes inside the party - Concretization on the example of the war in Kosovo

This bachelor thesis deals with the internal problems of the German political party "The Greens" with the focus on the inner party dispute concerning the combat deployment of the GFR in the Kosovo war. The author chose the method of the one case study taking into consideration the wide context of that problem. In the first two chapters the thesis illustrates the development of the Greens in the political system. It is going to demonstrate how those inner party problems became decisive when anchoring the Greens into the political system. Then, in the third chapter, it makes it concrete on the example of the war in Kosovo during which the army of the FRG participated in the combat deployment within the NATO group. The party was at that time a member of the German government due to which the conflict potential was strengthened. In respect of the escalated situation it had to decide if it was going to support the governmental course and thus it would act in contradiction to its traditional radical pacifism or if it was going to stay on the governmental course in order not to jeopardize the functioning of the party in the government. The aim of this thesis is to answer the questions if the Greens were, in spite of this escalated dispute, able to continue to work as the governmental party and if their..