From the Bonn to the Berlin Republic : : Germany at the Twentieth Anniversary of Unification / / ed. by Jeffrey Anderson, Eric Langenbacher.

The fall of the Berlin Wall and the unification of East and West Germany in 1989/90 were events of world-historical significance. The twentieth anniversary of this juncture represents an excellent opportunity to reflect upon the evolution of the new Berlin Republic. Given the on-going significance o...

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Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2010]
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Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (416 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • PART I. HISTORICAL REFLECTIONS
  • Chapter 1 THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC AT SIXTY Popular Myths, Actual Accomplishments and Competing Interpretations
  • Chapter 2 “ALS WÄR’S EIN STÜCK VON UNS ...” GERMAN POLITICS AND SOCIETY TRAVERSES TWENTY YEARS OF UNITED GERMANY
  • PART II. CULTURE AND SOCIETY
  • Chapter 3 THE LAST EAST GERMAN AND THE MEMORY OF THE GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC
  • Chapter 4 THEMASTERED PAST? Collective Memory Trends in Germany since Unification
  • Chapter 5 OBAMAMANIA AND ANTI-AMERICANISM AS COMPLEMENTARY CONCEPTS IN CONTEMPORARY GERMAN DISCOURSE
  • Chapter 6 PASSING TIME SINCE THEWENDE Recent German Film on Unification
  • Chapter 7 POST COITUM TRISTE EST…? Sexual Politics and Cultures in Postunification Germany
  • Chapter 8 FROM AUSLÄNDER TO INLANDER The Changing Faces of Citizenship in Post-Wall Germany
  • Chapter 9 THE SOCIAL INTEGRATION OF GERMANY SINCE UNIFICATION1
  • Chapter 10 GENDER POLITICS IN THE BERLIN REPUBLIC Four Issues of Identity and Institutional Change
  • PART III. POLITICS AND PUBLIC POLICY
  • Chapter 11 THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC AT TWENTY Of Blind Spots and Peripheral Visions
  • Chapter 12 IS THERE A SINGLE GERMAN PARTY SYSTEM?
  • Chapter 13 HIGHER EDUCATION IN GERMANY Fragmented Change amid Paradigm Shifts1
  • Chapter 14 THE NORMATIVE POWER OF A NORMAL STATE Power and Revolutionary Vision in Germany’s Post-Wall Foreign Policy
  • Chapter 15 FLIGHT FROM RISK Unified Germany and the Role of Beliefs in the European Response to the Financial Crisis
  • PART IV. POLITICAL ECONOMY
  • Chapter 16 GERMAN ECONOMIC UNIFICATION TWENTY YEARS LATER
  • Chapter 17 THE ELUSIVE QUEST FOR NORMALCY The German Economy since Unification
  • Chapter 18 TWENTY YEARS AFTER GERMAN UNIFICATION The Restructuring of the German Welfare and Employment Regime
  • Chapter 19 INDUSTRY AND FINANCE IN GERMANY SIN CE UNIFICATION
  • Chapter 20 IDEAS, INSTITUTIONS AND ORGANIZED CAPITALISM The German Model of Political Economy Twenty Years after Unification1
  • CONCLUSION The Germans Must Have Done Something Right
  • CONTRIBUTORS
  • INDEX