`...a most significant addition to the literature on its subject.' - Roger Morgan, Professor of Political Science, European University Institute, Florence An unconventional overview of a new and normal Germany fifty years after World War 2 and five years after unification. The authors address the challenges of ageing and migration to a tangled national identity; their impact on a cautious yet resilient society, and an inertial yet dynamic economy; and the frequently surprising ways Germans have learned to cope with one another, redefine and pursue their interests, and deal with a changing world after two dictatorships, two world wars, and one cold war.

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DAVID SCHOENBAUM teaches history at the University of Bonn. Since then he has written about Germany and German affairs for European and American newspapers and journals, including Foreign Policy, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Washington Star and the Economist. His books include Hitler's Social Revolution, The Spiegal Affair and Zabern 1913.

Elizabeth Pond is a freelance writer on Central European affairs. She was staff correspondent of the Christian Science Monitor for thirty years, as Bureau Chief in Saigon, Tokyo, Moscow and Bonn. From 1977 to 1988 she was the Monitor's European Correspondent, covering East-West relations, arms control and other security issues, as well as German foreign and domestic policy. She has written for Foreign Affairs, Survival, The Washington Quarterly, Die Zeit, The Economist, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today and other publications

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Acknowledgements - The Once and Future Kingdom - Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Today - From Industrial Park to Theme Park? - Revolution, East-German Style - European and Foreign Policy - Whither Germany? - Index