Tangled Transformations
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-5684-6 (ISBN)
Tangled Transformations presents a historical analysis of the interplay between German unification and European integration from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. Building on freshly released documents, the book’s sixteen chapters explore constellations in which the two processes accelerated and informed one another.
The book highlights the role of Germany’s neighbours to the east, with chapters discussing the cotransformation between East and West as well as chapters dedicated to Poland, Romania, and Hungary. It sheds new light on the two interrelated processes by examining the role of Germany’s most important Western neighbours and partners: the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and Italy. The book pays particular attention to the role of the European Commission as well as to monetary and industrial policy. It also moves beyond the economic sphere by discussing foreign and security policy issues, justice and home affairs, German debates about European integration at the time, and the significance of the German federal states. Ultimately, Tangled Transformations demonstrates the strong interlinkages between German unification and European integration.
Kiran Klaus Patel is the chair of modern history at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Kiran Klaus Patel
Part I. The Intersection between European Integration and Unification I: Germany as Part of East Central Europe
Co-transformation since 1990: A German Path and Perspective, with European Ramifications
Philipp Ther
Old Walls Crumble, New Borders Appear: Polish Perspectives on German Unification and European Integration
Florian Peters
Return to the Periphery of Central Europe: Hungary’s “Long Refolution,” German Unification, and European Integration
Ferenc Laczó
The Reluctant Neighbour: Romania’s Position on the German Question and the Deepening of Western Integration
Elena Dragomir
Part II. The Intersection between European Integration and Unification II: Germany as Part of “the West”
“Europe Whole and Free”: The United States, European Integration, and the Failure of “New Atlanticism”
Philipp Gassert
The German Question and the British Inability to Give a European Answer
Mathias Haeussler
“Two Sides of the Same Coin”: France’s European Response to the Challenge of German Unification, 1989–90
Hélène Miard-Delacroix
German Unification and European Integration: Deconstructing the Italian Trade-Off Narrative
Gabriele D’Ottavio
Part III. The EC and German Unification: Economic and Monetary Integration
“Un phénomène globalement positif”: The European Commission, German Unification, and the Future of Europe, 1989–90
Victor Jaeschke
Germany, German Unity, and the European Monetary Experiment
Harold James
A Question of Timing: The Strasbourg EC Summit and the Acceleration of the Maastricht Process
Andreas Wirsching
Shaping Markets in Eastern Germany (and Western Europe): Multinational Dimensions of State Aid to Steel
Keith R. Allen
Part IV. Integration beyond Economics and Its Intersection with German Unification
A Crucial Step towards Europeanization? German Unification and the Creation of the Common Foreign and Security Policy in the 1990s
Gabriele Clemens
Police Cooperation for an Ever Closer Union: The Impact of Long-Term Factors and the Momentum of 1989–90 in the Europol Foundation Process
Eva Oberloskamp
Stability, Reliability, Identity: Parliamentary Debates on European Unification in East, West, and Unified Germany, 1990–2
Dominik Geppert
German Unification, the Laender, and the Europeanization of the Political System of Federal Germany
Guido Thiemeyer
List of Contributors
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 05.03.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | German and European Studies |
| Verlagsort | Toronto |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 159 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 700 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4875-5684-5 / 1487556845 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4875-5684-6 / 9781487556846 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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