Confrontation and Cooperation

Hans-Jurgen Schroder Professor of History,University of Giessen

• The past is prologue - on the significance of 20th century American-German relations, H.-J. Schroder; from anglophobia to fragile rapprochement - Anglo-American relations in the early 20th century, E.C. Crapol; the United States and Germany in the world arena 1900-1917, R. Fiebig-von Hase; continentalism and "mitteleuropa" as points of departure for a comparison of American and German foreign relations in the early 20th century, R.E. Hannigan; the advantages of cooperation - German-American friendship as a fundamental principle of German "weltpolitik" and Theodore Roosevelt's big-stick diplomacy, R. Lammersdorf; inventing the enemy - German-American cultural relations 1900-1917, F. Trommler; the "kultur" club, E. Shore; promoting "Kaiser" and "Reich" - imperial German propaganda in the USA during World War I, R.R. Doerries; German imperial propaganda and the American homefront in World War I, J. Nagler; the war on German language and culture 1917-1925, P. Finkelman; American political culture in a time of crisis - mobilization in World War I, D.M. Kennedy; war economy and controlled economy - the discrediting of "socialism" during the First World War, G.D. Feldman; "zwangswirtschaft" and "socialism", N. Finzsch; the US, the German peril and a revolutionary world - the inconsistencies of World order and national self-determination, L.C. Gardner; the German challenge to the Monroe doctrine in Mexico, 1919, L. Garces; German economic war aims reconsidered - the American perspective, G. Soutou; German disappointment and anti-Western resentment, P. Kruger; imperialism and revolution - Wilsonian dilemmas, L.E. Ambrosius; German and American concepts to restore a liberal world trading after World War I, E. Glaser-Schmidt; origins of American stabilization policy - the financial dimensions, 1918-1924, S.A. Schuker; trade, debts and reparations - economic concepts and political constraints, M. Berg; the limits of American stabilization policy in Europe, M. Behnen; public lecture - 1917 reconsidered, E. Angermann.