This wide-ranging collection brings together contributions from historians, political scientists, policymakers, and others to provide much-needed perspective on the unification of Germany as it actually played out in real historical time.

Autorentext
PETER C. CAMPBELL ****Professor of History at Rice University, USA.
ROBERT R. SHANDLEY Associate Professor of Film Studies and German at Texas A&M University, USA.

Inhalt
German Unification, Western Order, and the Post-Cold War Restructuring of the International System; G.J.Ikenberry Between Euroland and Abendland?: Opportunities and Challenges for German Foreign Policy Since Unification; M.H.Hampton Rethinking Reunification: German Monetary Union and European Integration; J.R.Zatlin The Quest for Freedom and Stability: Political Choices and the Economic Transformation of East Germany 1989-1991; W.Seibel A Splendid Failure: Reflections on Two Decades of East German Economic Reconstruction; I.Collier Political Institutions and Unification; U.K.Preuß German Unification and the Federal Constitutional Court: A Retrospective View After Twenty Years; P.E.Quint The End of Dictatorship and Its Aftermath: Personal Reflections of the Federal Commissioner for the Records of the State Security Agency of the German Democratic Republic; M.Birthler