Jeffrey Anderson is Graf Goltz Professor of Government and Director of the BMW Center for German and European Studies, Georgetown University. He is an expert in European politics, with special emphasis on the European Union and postwar German politics and foreign policy. Recent publications include, The End of the West? Crisis and Change in the Atlantic Order (edited with G. John Ikenberry and Thomas Risse, Cornell University Press, 2008); German Unification and the Union of Europe: The Domestic Politics of Integration Policy (Cambridge University Press, 1999).

“Altogether the contributions make for informative reading. The volume poses clear questions about the state of inner-German unity, and about the extent to which globalization, Europeanization, and the Cold War have changed the country.”  ·  German Studies Review"…the specific topics addressed in the individual contributions are handled and presented with admirable fluency, and none of the chapters appear out of place, overly niched, or superfluous to the overall narrative being communicated…In comparison to a number of recently published monograph histories of the Berlin Republic, this detailed volume contains much more specific material on the themes it addresses. While it thus cannot replace the narrative history of those monographs, it will function very well as a complement for advanced students and researchers alike."  ·  German History

• IntroductionJeffrey J. Anderson PART I: HISTORICAL REFLECTIONS Chapter 1. The Federal Republic at Sixty: Popular Myths, Actual Accomplishments and Competing InterpretationsKonrad H. Jarausch Chapter 2. “Als wär’s ein Stück von uns ...” German Politics and Society Traverses Twenty Years of United Germany Charles Maier PART II: CULTURE AND SOCIETY Chapter 3. The Last East German and the Memory of the German Democratic RepublicA. James McAdams Chapter 4. The Mastered Past? Collective Memory Trends in Germany since UnificationEric Langenbacher Chapter 5. Obamamaniaand Anti-Americanism as Complementary Concepts in Contemporary German DiscourseRuth Hatlapa and Andrei S. Markovits Chapter 6. Passing Time since the Wende: Recent German Film on UnificationBradley Prager Chapter 7. Post coitum triste est…? Sexual Politics and Cultures in Pzostunification GermanyDagmar Herzog Chapter 8. From Ausländer to Inlander: The Changing Faces of Citizenship in Post-Wall GermanyJoyce Marie Mushaben Chapter 9. The Social Integration of Germany since UnificationHilary Silver Chapter 10. Gender Politics in the Berlin Republic: Four Issues of Identity and Institutional ChangeMyra Marx Ferree PART III: POLITICS AND PUBLIC POLICY Chapter 11. The Federal Republic at Twenty: Of Blind Spots and Peripheral VisionsJeffrey J. Anderson Chapter 12.Is There a Single German Party System?Russell J. Dalton and Willy Jou Chapter 13. Higher Education in Germany: Fragmented Change or Paradigm Shift?Helga Welsh Chapter 14. The Normative Power of a Normal State: Power and Revolutionary Vision in Germany’s Post-Wall Foreign PolicyBeverly Crawford Chapter 15. Flight From Risk: Unified Germany and the Role of Beliefs in the European Response to the Financial CrisisAbraham Newman PART IV: POLITICAL ECONOMY Chapter 16 German Economic Unification Twenty Years LaterHolger Wolf Chapter 17. The Elusive Quest for Normalcy: The German Economy since UnificationStephen J. Silvia Chapter 18. Twenty Years after German Unification: The Restructuring the German Welfare and Employment RegimeAnke Hassel Chapter 19. Industry and Finance in Germany since UnificationRichard Deeg Chapter 20. Ideas, Institutions and Organized Capitalism: The German Model of Political Economy Twenty Years after Unification ChristopherS. Allen Conclusion: The Germans Must Have Done Something RightEric LangenbacherContributors