The New Germany and the New Europe

Paul B. Stares

doi:10.5771/9780815720997

Summary

Since the first heroic and largely spontaneous acts precipitated the end of the Cold War, Europe has been transformed in a truly remarkable and wholly unforeseen manner: Germany has been unified, the Warsaw Pact has collapsed, and the Soviet Union has disintegrated, leaving in its wake many new independent states.

These momentous events have taken place so rapidly and often in such confused circumstances that their full meaning has barely been comprehended let alone assimilated. A clearer and deeper appreciation of the forces and processes unleashed by the recent changes is vitally important, however, to meet the challenges and exploit the opportunities that now present themselves in Europe. This volume, therefore, is intended to promote wider understanding of the key issues, and it represents the most comprehensive assessment to date of the new Germany and the new Europe.

The volume begins with detailed accounts by U.S. and German scholars of how unification came about and the resulting changes to the political economy, security policy, and foreign relations. A complementary section discusses the implications for the rest of Europe as well as Japan. While the focus of the book is on the new Germany, two separate chapters provide specific designs for a new adoption of a general system of cooperative security.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2010
ISBN-Print: 978-0-8157-8137-0
ISBN-Online: 978-0-8157-2099-7
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 406
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
1. The New Germany: The Challenges of Unification No access
2. The New Europe: Risks and Opportunities No access
3. The Impact of the New Germany: The View from the Outside No access
1. 1. The Road to Unification No access
  2. The Dimensions of Unity No access
  3. Unification: Still Growing Together No access
2. 1. The Institutional Framework of German Unity: The Transfer of a Political System No access
  2. Monetary and Economic Union: Politics versus Expertise? No access
  3. The East German Economy in Transition No access
  4. Financing German Unity: Federalism under Stress No access
  5. Conclusion No access
3. 1. Encircled by Friends, Deprived of Enemies No access
  2. German Defense since Unification No access
  3. The Changing Security Environment No access
  4. Consequences for German Security Policy No access
  5. A New Security Policy No access
4. 1. Prelude: The Road to Unification No access
  2. The Public Debate on Germany's New Foreign Policy No access
  3. The Gulf War and German Policy No access
  4. The Debate on Out-of-Area Missions No access
  5. Eliminating Irresponsibility: The Reform of Export Policy No access
  6. From Distrust to Good Neighborliness: Warsaw and Prague No access
  7. Assertive Peacemaking? The Case of Yugoslavia No access
  8. Shaping Europe's Security Architecture No access
  9. Shaping EC Integration No access
  10. Conclusion: New Assertiveness or Self-Contained Leadership? No access
1. 1. Analytical Framework No access
  2. Eastern Europe: The Challenge of System Transformation No access
  3. Western Europe: The Challenge of Systemic Reform No access
  4. Conclusion No access
2. 1. Premise and Principles of Cooperative Security No access
  2. Implementing Cooperative Security in Europe No access
  3. Conclusion: Toward a Global Security Regime No access
1. 1. The Economic and Political Impact of Unification on the EC No access
  2. German Economic Power and Political Leadership prior to Unification No access
  3. Public Attitudes toward Germany's New International Status and Future Role No access
  4. Future Challenges No access
2. 1. Short-Term Impacts No access
  2. Medium-Term Implications No access
  3. Some Strategic Issues No access
  4. Lessons from German Unification for Central and Eastern Europe No access
  5. Conclusion No access
3. 1. Unification and the Security of Central and Eastern Europe No access
  2. The Disintegration of the Soviet Union and the Security of Central and Eastern Europe No access
  3. New Security Policies of the Central and East European Countries No access
  4. Future Security Problems in Central and Eastern Europe No access
  5. Conclusion No access
4. 1. Prior to Unification No access
  2. Consequences of German Unification No access
  3. Germany and Possible Developments in the Former Soviet Union No access
  4. Russia and Germany: Foreign Policy Challenges No access
  5. Recommendations No access
5. 1. The Role of Germany in EC-Japan Relations No access
  2. Improving Economic Relations No access
  3. Expanding Political and Security Relations No access
  4. New Challenges to German-Japanese Relations No access
  5. Japan and Germany in the Shaping of a New World Order No access
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