Few countries have caused or experienced more calamities in the 20th century than Germany. The country emerged from the Cold War as a newly united and sovereign state, eventually becoming Europe's indispensable partner for all major domestic and foreign policy initiatives. This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of some of the major issues of German domestic politics, economics, foreign policy, and culture by leading experts in their respective fields. This book serves primarily as a reference work on Germany for scholars and an interested public, but through this broader lens it also provides a magnifying glass of global developments which are challenging and transforming the modern state. The growing importance of Germany as a political actor and economic partner makes this endeavor all the more timely and pertinent from a German, European, and global perspective.
Author(s): Klaus Larres, Holger Moroff, Ruth Wittlinger
Series: Oxford Handbooks
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 719
City: Oxford
Cover
The Oxford Handbook of German Politics
Copyright
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Figures and Tables
List of Contributors
Introduction
PART I: LEADING SCHOLARS AND THEIR INTERPRETATIONS OF GERMAN HISTORY FROM WORLD WAR II TO THE PRESENT
1. Encounters with Modernity: The German Search for Alternatives in the Twentieth Century
2. From Post-National Democracy to Post-Classical Nation-State
3. Emotional Styles in Post-War German Politics
4. The Development of Germany After 1945
PART II: GERMANY DURING THE COLD WAR ERA
5. Atlantic Integration and ‘Ever Closer Union’: West Germany, the US, and European Unity during the Cold War
6. Germany and the Soviet Union during the Cold War Era
7. The Governmental System and Political History of the GDR
8. The End of the Cold War and the Process of German Unification
PART III: GERMANY SINCE 1990
9. The Executive: The German Government and Civil Service
10. The German Bundestag: Core Institution in a Parliamentary Democracy
11. The Federal System and the Länder
12. The German Legal System and Courts
13. The ‘Old Five’: The Bonn Parties in the Berlin Republic
14. Germany’s Political Parties—the Newcomers
Political Economy and Policy-Making
15. The German Economic Model: From Germany’s Social Market Economy to Neo-liberalism?
16. Germany’s Trading System and Export-Driven Economy
17. Germany’s Banking and Financial System
18. The German Welfare State
19. The Immigration System and the Rule of Law
20. The Merkel Era: Environmental Politics and the ‘Energiewende’ (Energy Transition)
Culture and Society
21. Demographics and Generational Transition and Politics
22. Religion and the Churches
23. Jewish Life and Politics in Post-War Germany
24. Identity and Diversity in Post-Unification Germany
25. German Literature, Theatre, and Film since 1990
26. German Art After 1990
PART IV: GERMANY IN GLOBAL AFFAIRS
27. German Foreign Policy: Roots, Reasonings, and Repercussions
28. Franco-German Relations and the European Integration Process since 1990
29. Germany and EU Foreign Policy
30. Germany in the EU: An Assertive Status Quo Power?
Germany and the World Beyond Europe
31. German Multilateralism After the Cold War
32. Germany and NATO
33. German-American Relations from 1945 to the Present
34. Three Chancellors and Russia: German-Russian Relations since 1990
35. A Quarter Century of German Relations with the Indo-Pacific
PART V: LOOKING BACKWARD AND FORWARD
36. Angela Merkel in Power: How Influential Was the Merkel Era?
37. Leaders in Partnership: Germany in the Biden Era
Index
