<Articles>Stresemann's Foreign Policy and the Stability of the Weimar Republic

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  • <論説>シュトレーゼマン外交とヴァイマル共和政の安定
  • シュトレーゼマン外交とヴァイマル共和政の安定
  • シュトレーゼマン ガイコウ ト ヴァイマル キョウワセイ ノ アンテイ

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The problem of the "collapse" of the Weimar Republic has generally been the most important theme in the historical studies of that period. In order to get the possibly reasonable solution of this problem, it is necessary for us to clarify the character of the "stability" of the Republic, which continued from 1924 to 1929. Because, the process of the "collapse" came as a result of the disapperance of factors, which were effective in supporting the "stability" during these six years. In this paper, our aim is to illustrate some aspects of Stresemann's foreign policy, especially his policy toward the West, which covered almost the same period and was also playing a significant role as one of the stabilizing factors in the Republic. With the Western policy of Stresemann in the centre, there was formed a wide front of the German political parties from the Social Democrats to the right-wing parties, because each of these parties was interested in the promotion of this policy for its own respective reason. Under the circumstances of that time, however, a necessary requisite for the effective promotion of Stresemann's "understanding" policy toward the west was to conduct the domestic policies on the basis of the Weimar constitution. This was why the political parties on the front were forced more or less to recognize this republican constitution and also why the stability of the Republic was kept all through the period, with which we are concerned.

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  • 史林

    史林 44 (5), 754-780, 1961-09-01

    THE SHIGAKU KENKYUKAI (The Society of Historical Research), Kyoto University

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