Bradley Shingleton, A/ Gibbon, Marian J./ Mack, Kathryn S.

Dimensions of German Unification. Economic, Social & Legal Analyses.

Boulder and others, Westview Press, 1995. 8°. XV, 254 pages. Original softcover (Paperback). Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Robert Bosch Foundation Alumni Association.

Includes for Example: Whither the Treuhandanstalt?: Frederick R. Fucci/ The Politics of Restructuring Business Enterprises in the Former GDR: The Case of EKO Stahl: Mark J. Jrolf/ Less Than a Universe of Difference: Evaluating the Reality of a German Finance: Adam S. Posen/ Germany at Maastricht: Diplomacy and Domestic Politics: Colette Mazzucelli/ Standort Deutschland: Can a Changing Germany Compete in the Changing World Market?: Michael Zumwinkle/ Passages: East-West by North-South: Thomas A. Hagemann/ A Quiet Land: Reflections on Dictatorship in East Germany: Angela Kurtz Mendelson/ Slouching Toward Capitalism: Cultural Transformation in Leipzig 1993: Lauren Stone/ Rightist Violence as a Youth Phenomenon in United Germany: Bradden Weaver/ “Let The Advertiser Beware”: Restrictions on Comparative and Misleading Advertising Under German Unfair Competition Law: Sylvia Becker/ No More Strangers, but Fellow Citizens: Minority Protection Laws in the United States and Germany: Christopher S. Visick/ Legal Ethics as Market Interference: The Example of the German Residency Requirements: Ingrid L. Lenhardt/ Germany in a New Europe: Kurt Biedenkopf/ Pan-European Policy After the End of the East-West Conflict: German Foreign Policy Needs New Concepts: Karsten D. Voigt/ The Need for Civil Courage: Yilmaz Karahasan etc.

Rather than a single political achievement fixed in time, German unification has proven to be a complex, multidimensional process. After four years, Germany continues to confront formidable economic, social, and cultural challenges resulting from the rushed marriage of disparate societies and political systems. This volume brings U.S. perspectives to bear on some of the economic, social, and legal aspects of unification in one of Europes most closely watched democracies. Part One explores the economic ramifications of unification, especially the massive restructuring of eastern Germanys industrial base, which has caused profound unemployment and economic hardship. An enormous economic and political task in the best of times, the reconstruction was undertaken in a period of global recession and rapid political evolution in the entire region.Part Two considers social and cultural stresses of unification, as exemplified in the press, cultural organizations, and Germanys confrontation of its own past.Part Three explores legal issues, demonstrating how some of the peculiar social-philosophical postulates of German law are increasingly being questioned. These serve as reminders that German unification has occurred in the context of European integration and that the new Germany must come to terms not only with itself but with a wider political entity of which it is a part.

• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813388767
• Inventory Number: 41201AB

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