It is easy in retrospect to ascribe inevitability to Germanyβs unification in 1990. But in fact, such events are the product of decisions made when the outcomes of a process are not yet clear. A dramatic opening in international relations, an ongoing upheaval in East German politics that put the old
German Unification: Expectations and Outcomes
β Scribed by Peter C. Caldwell, Robert R. Shandley (eds.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan US
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 198
- Series
- Studies in European Culture and History
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction....Pages 1-14
German Unification, Western Order, and the Post-Cold War Restructuring of the International System....Pages 15-39
Between Euroland and Abendland? Opportunities and Challenges for German Foreign Policy Since Unification....Pages 41-60
Rethinking Reunification: German Monetary Union and European Integration....Pages 61-98
The Quest for Freedom and Stability: Political Choices and the Economic Transformation of East Germany 1989β1991....Pages 99-119
A Splendid Failure: Reflections on Two Decades of East German Economic Reconstruction....Pages 121-135
Political Institutions and German Unification....Pages 137-151
German Unification and the Federal Constitutional Court: A Retrospective View After Twenty Years....Pages 153-172
Epilogue....Pages 173-182
Back Matter....Pages 183-188
β¦ Subjects
History of Germany and Central Europe; Cultural History; European History; Social History; Modern History
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