Germany Since Unification: The Domestic and External Consequences

ISBN-13: 9781349261345 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 239 str.

Klaus Larres

Opis

Almost a decade after the opening of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of the GDR and the end of the Cold War, Germany has begun to cope with the political, economic, social and nationalistic challenges unification has posed to its institutions and way of life in both the western and eastern part of the once divided country. The books' nine authors, all experts in their field, analyse the way united Germany has tackled the many unforeseen problems and highlight Germany's slow adjustment to the new realities. The emergence of a new economic, political and perhaps military superstate as feared by many in 1990 has not materialised. Instead, Germany today is only just coping with the domestic and external challenges of unification. The economic and social integration of the former East Germany may yet take another 10 to 15 years. This timely and well-researched book outlines the many challenges facing Germany and its European neighbours in the post-Cold War world.

Spis treści

List of Figures and Tables - Glossary and List of Abbreviations - Notes on Contributors - Introduction - PART 1: THE GERMAN QUESTION AND THE REVOLUTION OF 1989/90 - The German Question, 1945-1995; R.Steininger - Germany in 1989: The Development of a Revolution; K.Larres - PART 2: THE DOMESTIC CONSEQUENCES OF GERMAN UNIFICATION - The German Economy since 1989/90: Problems and Prospects; C.Flockton - The German Party System since Unification; W.J.Chandler - German Federalism in the 1990s: On the Road to a 'Divided Polity?'; C.Jeffery - Racial Exclusionism in the New Germany; P.Panayi - PART 3: THE EXTERNAL CONSEQUENCES OF GERMAN UNIFICATION - The German Model and European Integration; E.O.Smith - Believing in the Miracle Cure: The Economic Transition Process in Germany and East-Central Europe; T.Geiger - Germany's Security Policy Dilemmas: NATO, the WEU and the OSCE; A.Hyde-Price - Index

O autorze

Klaus Larres is Reader in Politics, The Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland.