04190nam 2200697Ia 450 991096137700332120200520144314.01-282-60457-097866126045770-472-02265-210.3998/mpub.16200(CKB)2560000000014828(SSID)ssj0000418592(PQKBManifestationID)11286252(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000418592(PQKBWorkID)10377081(PQKB)11363044(MiAaPQ)EBC3414829(OCoLC)646068498(MdBmJHUP)muse9664(MiU)10.3998/mpub.16200(Au-PeEL)EBL3414829(CaPaEBR)ebr10393003(CaONFJC)MIL260457(OCoLC)824100778(BIP)46198477(BIP)47735460(EXLCZ)99256000000001482819981210d1999 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe German problem transformed institutions, politics, and foreign policy, 1945-1995 /Thomas BanchoffAnn Arbor University of Michigan Pressc1999x, 217 pSocial history, popular culture, and politics in GermanyBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-472-11008-X Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-209) and index.Preface -- List of abbreviations -- The German problem transformed -- The Cold War and Western integration -- Detente and the new Ostpolitik -- The new Cold War and the INF struggle -- Post-reunification foreign policy -- History and German foreign policy -- Appendix: the GDR and the German problem -- Bibliography -- Index.Does the new, more powerful Germany pose a threat to its neighbors? Does the new German Problem resemble the old? The German Problem Transformed addresses these questions fifty years after the founding of the Federal Republic and ten years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Many observers have underscored the reemergence of Germany as Europe's central power. After four decades of division, they contend, Germany is once again fully sovereign; without the strictures of bipolarity, its leaders are free to define and pursue national interests in East and West. From this perspective, the reunified Germany faces challenges not unlike those of its unified predecessor a century earlier. The German Problem Transformed rejects this formulation. Thomas Banchoff acknowledges post-reunification challenges, but argues that postwar changes, not prewar analogies, best illuminate them. The book explains the transformation of German foreign policy through a structured analysis of four critical postwar junctures: the cold war of the 1950s, the d+tente of the 1960s and 1970s, the new cold war of the early 1980s, and the post-cold war 1990s. Each chapter examines the interaction of four factors--international structure and institutions, foreign policy ideas, and domestic politics--in driving the direction of German foreign policy at a key turning point. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of German history, German politics, and European international relations, as well as policymakers and the interested public. Thomas Banchoff is Assistant Professor of Government, Georgetown University.Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany.International relationsEurope, EasternForeign relationsGermany (West)Germany (West)Foreign relationsEurope, EasternGermanyForeign relations1945-GermanyForeign relations1990-GermanyPolitics and government1990-International relations.327.43Banchoff Thomas F.1964-1820092Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan)MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910961377003321The German problem transformed4381668UNINA