Аннотация
Unlike its predecessors, Germany used its military potential not to solve exceptionally national issues, but to participate in the activities of multilateral military blocs. At the same time she maintained its ambitions as a power. The combination of two trends has conditioned the Bundeswehrʼs usage as a means that provided Germany with the opportunity to become a framework nation for different multinational military groupings. The article explores the cases of such a role of Germany in the instability zones in the Balkans in the 1990s, in Afghanistan, Lebanon and Mali in the XXI century. The constraints caused by the state of the Bundeswehr for the implementation of the tasks of the Federal Republic of Germany as a «framework nation» are considered. The cases of such Bundeswehr`s activity as NATO Response Force, enhanced and tailored Forward Presence during the confrontation between the West and Russia are considered. The political importance of each case for the change of Germany`s positions in Europe and in the world is presented.