Tamed Power : : Germany in Europe / / ed. by Peter J. Katzenstein.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Anderson, Jeffrey J.,; Anioł, Włodek,; Brzica, Daneš,; Bulmer, Simon J.,; Byrnes, Timothy A.,; Gedeon, Péter,; Ingebritsen, Christine,; Jeřábek, Hynek,; Katzenstein, Peter J.,; Katzenstein, Peter,; Kurzer, Paulette,; Marks, Michael P.,; Poláčková, Zuzana,; Samson, Ivo,; Zich, František,
• HerausgeberIn: Katzenstein, Peter J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©1998
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (328 p.) :; 3 tables

Revolutionary changes in global and European politics have reawakened old fears that Europe will be dominated by an unpredictable German giant. The same changes have fueled new hopes for Germany and Europe as models of political pluralism in a peaceful and prosperous world. In fact, Peter J. Katzenstein explains, the current reality is too complex to fit either expectation. Katzenstein contends that a multilateral institutionalization of power is the most distinctive aspect of the relationship between Europe and Germany. Only the observer who is aware of this important fact can understand why Germany is willing to give up its new sovereign power. Although Germany is larger than any other member of the European Union and plays a crucial role in the economic and political life of Eastern Europe, its power is now funneled through the institutions of the European Union rather than erupting in a narrow, power-defined sense of national self-interest. The empirical chapters of this book explore the institutionalization of power relations between the European Union and Germany, as well as the relations of Germany and the European Union with most of the smaller European states.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- 1. United Germany in an Integrating Europe -- 2. Shaping the Rules? The Constitutive Politics of the European Union and German Power -- 3. Hard Interests, Soft Power, and Germany's Changing Role in Europe -- 4. Placed in Europe: The Low Countries and Germany in the European Union -- 5. Moving at Different Speeds: Spain and Greece in the European Union -- 6. Pulling in Different Directions: The Europeanization of Scandinavian Political Economies -- 7· Returning to Europe: Central Europe between Internationalization and Instiltutionalization -- 8. The Smaller European States, Germany and Europe -- Index