German Unification: Expectations and Outcomes

by P. Caldwell, R. Shandley

Overview

This wide-ranging collection brings together contributions from historians, political scientists, policymakers, and others to provide much-needed perspective on the unification of Germany as it actually played out in real historical time.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349298846
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	10/14/2011
Series:	Studies in European Culture and History
Edition description:	1st ed. 2011
Pages:	188
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x (d)

About the Author

PETER C. CAMPBELL Professor of History at Rice University, USA.

ROBERT R. SHANDLEY Associate Professor of Film Studies and German at Texas A&M University, USA.

Table of Contents

German Unification, Western Order, and the Post-Cold War Restructuring of the International System; G.J.Ikenberry Between Euroland and Abendland?: Opportunities and Challenges for German Foreign Policy Since Unification; M.H.Hampton Rethinking Reunification: German Monetary Union and European Integration; J.R.Zatlin The Quest for Freedom and Stability: Political Choices and the Economic Transformation of East Germany 1989-1991; W.Seibel A Splendid Failure: Reflections on Two Decades of East German Economic Reconstruction; I.Collier Political Institutions and Unification; U.K.Preuß German Unification and the Federal Constitutional Court: A Retrospective View After Twenty Years; P.E.Quint The End of Dictatorship and Its Aftermath: Personal Reflections of the Federal Commissioner for the Records of the State Security Agency of the German Democratic Republic; M.Birthler