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Tangled Transformations
Unifying Germany and Integrating Europe, 1985-1995
Kiran Klaus Patel (Edited by)
9781487556846
Hardback, published 24 September 2024
414 pages
23.5 x 15.9 x 3.7 cm, 0.7 kg
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.
Acknowledgments Introduction 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 Old Walls Crumble, New Borders Appear: Polish Perspectives on German Unification and European Integration Return to the Periphery of Central Europe: Hungary’s "Long Refolution," German Unification, and European Integration The Reluctant Neighbour: Romania’s Position on the German Question and the Deepening of Western Integration 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" The German Question and the British Inability to Give a European Answer "Two Sides of the Same Coin": France’s European Response to the Challenge of German Unification, 1989–90 German Unification and European Integration: Deconstructing the Italian Trade-Off Narrative 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 Germany, German Unity, and the European Monetary Experiment A Question of Timing: The Strasbourg EC Summit and the Acceleration of the Maastricht Process Shaping Markets in Eastern Germany (and Western Europe): Multinational Dimensions of State Aid to Steel 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 Police Cooperation for an Ever Closer Union: The Impact of Long-Term Factors and the Momentum of 1989–90 in the Europol Foundation Process Stability, Reliability, Identity: Parliamentary Debates on European Unification in East, West, and Unified Germany, 1990–2 German Unification, the Laender, and the Europeanization of the Political System of Federal Germany List of Contributors
List of Abbreviations
Kiran Klaus Patel
Philipp Ther
Florian Peters
Ferenc Laczó
Elena Dragomir
Philipp Gassert
Mathias Haeussler
Hélène Miard-Delacroix
Gabriele D’Ottavio
Victor Jaeschke
Harold James
Andreas Wirsching
Keith R. Allen
Gabriele Clemens
Eva Oberloskamp
Dominik Geppert
Guido Thiemeyer
Index