Osthandel and Ostpolitik
Osthandel and Ostpolitik

Author: Robert Mark Spaulding

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 1997-06-01

Total Pages: 515

ISBN-13: 1800734948

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Eclipsed by the scope of the Atlantic economy, obscured by Anglo-German rivalry, and nearly destroyed by the post-1945 division of Europe, the flow of goods across East Central Europe has been, nonetheless, an immensely significant pattern of European economic exchange. For Germany, the Osthandel (Eastern trade) was both a blessing and a curse; its bounty provided much of the raw material for the rise of German economic and political power in Europe, while its lure tantalized German ambitions to the point of madness. Despite the enduring importance of this commerce, no monograph has yet made this pattern of trade the centerpiece of its treatment of German-East European relations. This study puts this important pattern of German-East European trade into the center of discussion and views an extended period of German foreign policy toward Eastern Europe through this lens.

Ideology and Interests in the German State (RLE: German Politics)
Ideology and Interests in the German State (RLE: German Politics)

Author: Gary Bonham

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-12-17

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 131755762X

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This book addresses major theoretical issues in the fields of public administration and comparative politics. It discusses the role which ideology played as a unifying force for at least parts of the German state bureaucracy in Wilhelmine Germany . The examination of a modernizing ideology in the German case is useful for an understanding of the political dynamics of state-led modernization and industrial strategy in many contemporary societies and the author explains political behaviour and relations in Germany in general terms that are universally relevant.

Contrasting US and German Attitudes to Soviet Trade, 1917–91
Contrasting US and German Attitudes to Soviet Trade, 1917–91

Author: Helene Seppain

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1992-06-18

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 1349126020

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Analyzes the differences in the approach to Soviet trade between the US and Germany since 1917. It provides an historical perpective to the use of Western economic power as an instrument with which to change Soviet policy. The book relates economic policy to political strategy.