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A unified Germany at the heart of Europe was the dramatic result of the Cold War's denouement in 1989-91. With it came new expectations about a sovereign Germany, and also a revival of old fears. The root question this book addresses is how will the new Germany use its great-power status? Does Germany, as in the past, aim to dominate Europe? Or has it renounced its imperial ambitions following the trauma of division during the Cold War? In seeking answers, the author scrutinizes the development of Germany's new Ostpolitik (New Eastern Policy) in the period 1989-2000. She analyses the...

The volume is the first documented account of this early Cold War crisis from both sides of the Iron Curtain. Based on the recent unprecedented access to the once-closed archives of several member states of the Warsaw Pact, this collection of primary-source documents presents one of the most notorious events of post-war European history.