Recent History Of The Federal Republic Of Germany And The United States
Author: Georg-Eckert-Institut für Internationale Schulbuchforschung
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: 1985-04-08
Total Pages: 68
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Georg-Eckert-Institut für Internationale Schulbuchforschung
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: 1985-04-08
Total Pages: 68
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Richard Straus
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-09-16
Total Pages: 105
ISBN-13: 1000309169
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The recommendations that follow are the product of a series of meetings of a group of German and American scholars. The deliberations at no time consisted of scholars of only one nationality. Among the scholars were American experts on German history as well as German experts on American history. What follows should, therefore, be regarded as an attempt to identify the most important events and developments in the two countries, both domestic and international. The recommendations claim neither completeness nor any deliberate exclusion of material. They are not intended to provide specific points of emphasis. Their aim is to stimulate a discussion of one or another aspect of German or U.S. postwar history or to place it in a broader context of historical perspective.
Author: James A Cooney
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-07-11
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 1000301400
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book examines the current and historical dimensions of relations between the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany, focusing on the complex economic issues that make the two countries interdependent and on the resulting policy implications. The contributors analyze the reasons for increasingly problematic relations between the United States and West Germany, arguing that the situation is exacerbated by the inadequate understanding Americans often have of the changing nature of society, politics, and culture in West Germany.
Author: Hans F. Zacher
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-11-15
Total Pages: 461
ISBN-13: 364222525X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book investigates the history of the post-war welfare state in Germany and its normative foundations, with special emphasis on constitutional issues. The author, formerly Director of the Max-Planck-Institute for Foreign and International Social Law, Munich, and President of the Max-Planck-Society, argues that social policy – not only in Germany – is about struggles over the “social”. The “social” is an open and changing concept that reflects the modern quest for equality, voiced in semantics like justice, participation, inclusion and security. The “social” and the “social state” (the German term for welfare state) are enshrined in the German Constitution of 1949, the Grundgesetz. The book sets out the phases of welfare state development in depth. Social policies are analyzed in view of wider contexts, especially the nation state, the rule of law (Rechtsstaat), federalism and democracy. The author emphasizes the dialectics between the national character of the welfare state and its manifold international references.
Author: Detlef Junker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-05-17
Total Pages: 610
ISBN-13: 0521834201
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Author: Riccardo Bavaj
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2017-06
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 1785335049
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“The West” is a central idea in German public discourse, yet historians know surprisingly little about the evolution of the concept. Contrary to common assumptions, this volume argues that the German concept of the West was not born in the twentieth century, but can be traced from a much earlier time. In the nineteenth century, “the West” became associated with notions of progress, liberty, civilization, and modernity. It signified the future through the opposition to antonyms such as “Russia” and “the East,” and was deployed as a tool for forging German identities. Examining the shifting meanings, political uses, and transnational circulations of the idea of “the West” sheds new light on German intellectual history from the post-Napoleonic era to the Cold War.
Author: Wolfram F. Hanrieder
Publisher:
Published: 1989-01-01
Total Pages: 509
ISBN-13: 9780300040227
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Discusses how the goals of the Federal Republic of Germany -- security, political and economic integration into the West, and German unity -- were shaped by the conditions of the post-war state system and the Germans' response to them. The author's views on the fall of the Berlin Wall are included.
Author: Thomas Alan Schwartz
Publisher:
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 440
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →John J. McCloy was the "wise man" of the Cold War era who had the longest substantial American connection with Germany. A self-made man of great ambition, enormous vitality, and extraordinary tenacity, McCloy served in several government positions before being appointed High Commissioner of Germany in 1949. America's Germany is the first study of McCloy's critical years in Germany. Drawing on deep archival research and interviews, Thomas Schwartz argues that McCloy played a decisive role in the American effort to restore democracy and integrate Germany into Western Europe. Convinced that reunification should wait until Germany was firmly linked to the West, McCloy implemented a policy of "dual containment," designed to keep both the Soviet Union and Germany from dominating Europe. McCloy represented the best and the worst of the values and beliefs of a generation of American foreign policy leaders. He strove to learn from the mistakes made in the aftermath of the collapse of the Weimar Republic, when the West did not do enough to help German democracy survive. Yet his leniency toward convicted Nazi war criminals compromised the ideals for which America had fought in World War II. America's Germany offers an essential history for those wishing to understand the recent changes in Germany and Europe. The book describes a unique period in the relationship between America and Germany, when the two nations forged an extraordinary range of connections--political, economic, military, and cultural--as the Federal Republic became part of the Western club and the new Europe.
Author: Jeffry M. Diefendorf
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 560
ISBN-13: 9780521431200
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume of essays by German and American historians discusses key issues of US policy toward Germany in the decade following World War II.