Mitteleuropa and German Politics

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.