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Urban and Rural Change in West Germany
Originally published in 1983. Attention is focused in this book on the principal functional, spatial and morphological changes which had taken place within West Germany’s uniquely arranged mosaic of cities, towns and intervening rural areas during the postwar period. The topics covered here have been carefully selected as key foci of interest, and their thematic approach is supported by a large variety of detailed, local case studies. This title will be of interest to students of urban geography and urban studies.
Industry and Politics in West Germany
Under the editorship of Peter J. Katzenstein, thirteen distinguished scholars from both sides of the Atlantic here provide an original interpretation of the political economy of the Bonn Republic during the forty years since its founding, and explore in particular its extraordinary capacity for accommodating change.
Counterweights
A policy analyst for the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador charges that Canadian bi-lateral defense relations with Germany have been ad hoc, ill-considered, and badly implemented because decision makers have been ignorant of the important role played by the military in supporting broader policy goals. Canadian card order number: C96-990022-8. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
From Ostpolitik to Reunification
With the signing of the Moscow Treaty in 1970, West German-Soviet relations came to the forefront of world politics. Two decades later, the historic opening of the Berlin Wall and German reunification once again focused world attention on the Federal Republic's relations with the USSR. This book explores the development of this relationship from the perspective of West Germany. Dr Avril Pittman outlines the main events after the Second World War and then focuses on four issues central to this relationship in the 1970s and early 1980s. She explores family reunification and emigration rights for ethnic Germans living in the Soviet Union; the central role of Berlin and the reasons why the city persisted as a serious bilateral problem; the triangular relations between West Germany, the Soviet Union and East Germany; and the significance of the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan which led to a sharp deterioration in East-West relations.
Memory and Power in Post-War Europe
How has memory - collective and individual - influenced European politics after the Second World War and after 1989 in particular? How has the past been used in domestic struggles for power, and how have 'historical lessons' been applied in foreign policy? While there is now a burgeoning field of social and cultural memory studies, mostly focused on commemorations and monuments, this volume is the first to examine the connection between memory and politics directly. It investigates how memory is officially recast, personally reworked and often violently re-instilled after wars, and, above all, the ways memory shapes present power constellations. The chapters combine theoretical innovation in their approach to the study of memory with deeply historical, empirically based case studies of major European countries. The volume concludes with reflections on the ethics of memory, and the politics of truth, justice and forgetting after 1945 and 1989.
National Union Catalog
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Staging West German Democracy
Staging West German Democracy examines how political “founding discourses” of the nascent Federal Republic (FRG) were reflected, reinforced, and actively manufactured by the Federal government in conjunction with the West German, state-controlled newsreel system, the Deutsche Wochenschau. By looking at the institutional history of the Deutsche Wochenschau and its close relationship to the Federal Press Office, Jan Uelzmann traces the Adenauer administration's project of maintaining a “government channel” in an increasingly diverse, de-centralized, and democratic West German media landscape. Staging West German Democracy reconstructs the company's integral role in the planning, produc...
Militarization and Democracy in West Germany's Border Police, 1951-2005
"A social history of West Germany's Bundesgrenzschutz (BGS, Federal Border Police) that complicates the telling of the country's history as a straightforward success story. The 2020 murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers shows that police violence is still a problem in Western democracies. Floyd's murder prompted some critics to hail the German police as a model of democratic policing that should be emulated. After 1945, Germany's police forces had supposedly shed the militarization and authoritarian impulses still prevalent in other nations' forces. These uncritical appraisals, however, deserve closer analysis. This book is a social history of West Germany's Bundesgrenzschutz...
The Art of Economic Persuasion
How the government and private interests in Germany cooperated to create friendly relations with Poland before the fall of communism
Politics and Government in Germany, 1944-1994
A source book of primary documents for students and scholars of Germany since World War II, revised from the 1984 Politics and Government in the Federal Republic of Germany to include new sections on the former German Democratic Republic (East Germany) and the process of German unification. Other sections include the 1944-49 origins of the country, Berlin, foreign policy, the armed forces, the Bundestag, political parties, officers, the judiciary, federalism, public opinion, and economic and social policy. Includes a glossary of untranslated German terms, without pronunciation. Paper edition (855-3), $24.50. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
