Bonn pursued foreign-policy initiatives partly for image-building propaganda effects.

Evidence

On the other hand, he valued the propaganda effects which he expected the initiative to yield even if it failed to generate noticeable progress on German unity. In his view, the proposal would reduce fears of Bonn’s presumed “revisionism” in East and West and thus considerably improve Germany’s image in international public opinion. — Pertti Ahonen, Domestic Constraints on West German…, 215

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s interest in whether professed/performative conviction diverges from actual intent — here the nonaggression proposal is explicitly calculated as image-management, not genuine policy.