Mitteleuropa

Mitteleuropa

Author: Peter J. Katzenstein

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9781571811240

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German unification and the political and economic transformations in central Europe signal profound political changes that pose many questions. This book offers a cautiously optimistic set of answers to these questions.


Mitteleuropa and German Politics

Mitteleuropa and German Politics

Author: J. Brechtefeld

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1996-09-11

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 023037476X

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The revival of the region of east-central Europe known as 'Mitteleuropa' began in Hungary and Czechoslovakia. For Germany, 'Mitteleuropa' became a renewed geopolitical concept. Since 1990 Mitteleuropa has increasingly become a region of German economic engagement. However, German elites failed however to develop a coherent political approach to that region while simultaneously conducting an eclectic Mitteleuropa policy outside a broader framework of foreign policy. This book traces Germany's Mitteleuropa politics and puts them into an historical context and into a framework for future foreign policy.


The Literary Politics of Mitteleuropa

The Literary Politics of Mitteleuropa

Author: Yvonne Zivkovic

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 331

ISBN-13: 1640140883

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Shows how postwar writers in Austria and Yugoslavia re-imagined Mitteleuropa as a cultural space between nostalgia and totalitarianism.


Mitteleuropa

Mitteleuropa

Author: Henry Cord Meyer

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-03-09

Total Pages: 391

ISBN-13: 9401524696

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Books begin as ideas. The suggestion for this one came from my mentor and friend, Hajo Holborn of Yale University. To him I am indebted for a series of challenging and rewarding experiences in the study of history. This work started as a routine dissertation on a limited subject, developed into a rejection of several generally accepted notions about German history, and finally opened out upon some broader perspectives of the modern Western world. In pursuing my topic I have tried to remain consistent and true to a fundamental conviction: that ideas cannot be dissociated from the men and situations that give birth to them, or from the changing characteristics of later men and later situations that use or affect the earlier ideological heritage. Politics by slogan is an aspect of man's activity that has its obvious, serious defects. These imperfections become more menacing when they are enshrined as history by slogan in the service of whatever cause. To counteract this tendency I have tried to tie the ideas of mid European integration clearly to specific persons or situations at every stage of development. Without such anchorage ideas will billow into slogans or evaporate into loose generalizations.


The Politics of German Defence and Security

The Politics of German Defence and Security

Author: Tom Dyson

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2008-03-01

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 0857450239

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The post-Cold War era has witnessed a dramatic transformation in the German political consensus about the legitimacy of the use of force. However, in comparison with its EU and NATO partners, Germany has been reticent to transform its military to meet the challenges of the contemporary security environment. Until 2003 territorial defence rather than crisis-management remained the armed forces' core role and the Bundeswehr continues to retain conscription. The book argues that 'strategic culture' provides only a partial explanation of German military reform. It demonstrates how domestic material factors were of crucial importance in shaping the pace and outcome of reform, despite the impact of 'international structure' and adaptational pressures from the EU and NATO. The domestic politics of base closures, ramifications for social policy, financial restrictions consequent upon German unification and commitment to EMU's Stability and Growth Pact were critical in determining the outcome of reform. The study also draws out the important role of policy leaders in the political management of reform as entrepreneurs, brokers or veto players, shifting the focus in German leadership studies away from a preoccupation with the Chancellor to the role of ministerial and administrative leadership within the core executive. Finally, the book contributes to our understanding of the Europeanization of the German political system, arguing that policy leaders played a key role in 'uploading' and 'downloading' processes to and from the EU and that Defence Ministers used 'Atlanticization' and 'Europeanization' in the interests of their domestic political agendas.


Bismarck and Mitteleuropa

Bismarck and Mitteleuropa

Author: Bascom Barry Hayes

Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 634

ISBN-13: 9780838635124

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"His labors were often fruitless. His own master, Wilhelm I, and the Prussian bureaucrats, diplomats, and courtiers with direct access to this first of Bismarck's Wilhelmian nemeses could be at least as obstructionist in Berlin as Franz Joseph and his minions in Vienna. In fact, all too often Bismarck's lack of control over the Prussian elites was in part responsible for the resistance of the Habsburg ruling circle.".


The Rise and Demise of German Statism

The Rise and Demise of German Statism

Author: Gregg Owen Kvistad

Publisher: Campus Verlag

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9781571811615

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German statism as a political ideology has been the subject of many historical studies. Whereas most of these focus on theoretical texts, cultural works, and vague "traditions", this study understands German statism as a functioning logic of political membership, a logic that has helped to determine who is "in" and who is "out" with regard to the German political community. Tracing statism from the early 19th century through German unification and beyond in the 1990s, the author argues that, with its central concern for a political loyalty that is vetted "from above," it historically served the function of stabilizing the political order and containing democratic mobilization. Beginning in the 1960s, however, a mobilized German democratic consciousness "from below" gradually rejected statism as anachronistic for informing political and policy debate, and German political institutions began to respond to kind.


Export Empire

Export Empire

Author: Stephen G. Gross

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 1107112257

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A major new interpretation of Nazi influence in southeastern Europe through the concepts of soft power and informal empire.


Japan and Germany in the Modern World

Japan and Germany in the Modern World

Author: Bernd Martin

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2005-12

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 9781845450472

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First study of the fascinating parallelism that characterizes developments in Japan and Germany by one of Germany's leading Japan specialists. With the founding of their respective national states, the Meiji Empire in 1869 and the German Reich in 1871, Japan and Germany entered world politics. Since then both countries have developed in strikingly similar ways, and it is not surprising that these two became close allies during the Second World War, although in the end this proved a "fatal attraction."