RUTH WITTLINGER is Senior Lecturer in Politics, School of Government and International Affairs, University of Durham, UK. She has published widely on post-unification Germany, European integration, British perceptions of Germany and the Germans and politics and literature.

'Clear, comprehensive and compelling' - The Times Literary Supplement 'For insight into modern Germany, I couldn't recommend a better book...clearly written, concise, in the know, touch, explanatory and not afriad of the big stuff...' - David Marx Book Reviews

• Introduction: A Different Republic After All? German National Identity and the Nazi Past The Quest for 'Inner Unity' From Prosperity to a Democracy of Want? The New Germany in the New Europe: a Leading Power Germany's New Foreign Policy Identity German National Identity in the 21st Century Bibliography

RUTH WITTLINGER is Senior Lecturer in Politics, School of Government and International Affairs, University of Durham, UK. She has published widely on post-unification Germany, European integration, British perceptions of Germany and the Germans and politics and literature.

'Clear, comprehensive and compelling' - The Times Literary Supplement 'For insight into modern Germany, I couldn't recommend a better book...clearly written, concise, in the know, touch, explanatory and not afriad of the big stuff...' - David Marx Book Reviews

• Introduction: A Different Republic After All? German National Identity and the Nazi Past The Quest for 'Inner Unity' From Prosperity to a Democracy of Want? The New Germany in the New Europe: a Leading Power Germany's New Foreign Policy Identity German National Identity in the 21st Century Bibliography

RUTH WITTLINGER is Senior Lecturer in Politics, School of Government and International Affairs, University of Durham, UK. She has published widely on post-unification Germany, European integration, British perceptions of Germany and the Germans and politics and literature.

'Clear, comprehensive and compelling' - The Times Literary Supplement 'For insight into modern Germany, I couldn't recommend a better book...clearly written, concise, in the know, touch, explanatory and not afriad of the big stuff...' - David Marx Book Reviews

• Introduction: A Different Republic After All? German National Identity and the Nazi Past The Quest for 'Inner Unity' From Prosperity to a Democracy of Want? The New Germany in the New Europe: a Leading Power Germany's New Foreign Policy Identity German National Identity in the 21st Century Bibliography