Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Foreword
1. Occupation and the Road to Two Different German States
2. Partial Integration of the Federal Republic and the Externally and Internally, 1949–55
3. The Two German States: Bloc Building in Central Europe, 1949/55–61
4. Germany as Two States, 1961–72
5. ‘Change Through Rapprochement’: Détente and Normalization, 1972–9
6. New Confrontation, Disarmament and Erosion of the Defence Blocs, 1979–89
7. Return of the ‘German Question’ and the Unification of Germany, 1989–90
8. The Consequences and Burdens of Unity: Transformation, Stagnation and the End of the Kohl Era, 1990–98
9. The ‘Red-Green’ Coalition as a Half-way Experiment, 1998–2005
10. New Beginnings and Tradition: The Grand Coalition under Angela Merkel, 2005–9
11. From Europe’s Troubleshooter to the Continent’s Lame Duck: The Merkel Era and the Berlin Republic at a Crossroads
12. Three Different Republics: Bonn – Pankow – Berlin, Attempt at a Summary
Abbreviations
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index