Overview
- Offers important insights into the coming transition from the Merkel Era of German politics to that of her successors
- Reflects on changes which have taken root and developed their own momentum three decades on from Germany's unification
- Draws upon a broad array of senior and prominent scholars of the German political system
Part of the book series: New Perspectives in German Political Studies (NPG)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
On October 3, 1990 the future of both Europe and Germany became powerfully and inexorably intertwined across a politically broadened continent powering transformative social, political and economic interactions. The thirty year mark after the then reigning chancellor Helmut Kohl promised 'flourishing landscapes' in the former GDR is more than just a new anniversary from which mandatory reflections must follow. Arguably, it represents a temporal boundary between the adjustments and reactions conditioned and captivated by a sense of something new and uncertain, and that point moving forward from which unification’s legacy inescapably tethers Germany’s future to normal politics shaped by the issues of the moment, and not politics gripped by the debates of unification itself. That legacy is defined by an accumulation over thirty years of adjustments, mutations, counter-adjustments and strategic reactions which have now delivered through the many ripples of change a Germany managing thecourse-trajectory which unification has relentlessly plotted. The foreseeable future will certainly see that legacy of unification tenaciously continue to project yet shrouded within the background of Germany’s routine politics. This volume explores that legacy within the post-unification era and reflects on the way forward into a near-term German future no longer consumed with unification itself but with the reality of politics it has steadily defined.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Michael Oswald is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Passau, Germany, Research Associate at the John F. Kennedy Institute, Free University of Berlin, Germany, Faculty at the Institute of European and International Studies (CIFE), France, and the author of The Palgrave Handbook of Populism (2021).
John Robertson is Professor of Political Science at Texas A&M University, USA. He is the author and co-author of numerous articles dealing with European affairs and comparative politics published in leading political science journals, including the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Comparative Politics, German Politics, International Political Science Review, and International Studies Quarterly.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Legacy and Impact of German Unification
Book Subtitle: The Elusive Dream of 'Flourishing Landscapes'
Editors: Michael Oswald, John Robertson
Series Title: New Perspectives in German Political Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97154-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-97153-3Published: 18 May 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-97156-4Published: 19 May 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-97154-0Published: 17 May 2022
Series ISSN: 2947-6747
Series E-ISSN: 2947-6755
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 403
Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: European Politics, Political Sociology, Political History, Governance and Government