United Germany - 9780857459725

The contributors of these fifteen essays on issues on uniting Germany examine the political processes, economic problems, social upheavals, cultural conflicts and international normalization. Their topics include continuity and change in political institutions, a view from the east on being united yet separated, the centrality of discourse, the collapse of the East German economy, fragmented development in East Germany from 1989 to 2010, East Germany's underperformance after unification, the crisis of feminine politics, the women's movement in East Germany, feminist encounters in Germany and the EU, literature beyond the GDR, some reflections on a disparate field between the two former countries, the demise of the reading culture and former East German writers, the "normalization" of humanitarian and military missions abroad, German foreign policy after 1990, and the erratic evolution of unification, particularly in foreign policy. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)