United Germany

Konrad H. Jarausch is the Lurcy Professor of European Civilization at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Senior Fellow of the Zentrum fur Zeithistorische Forschung in Potsdam. He has written or edited about forty books, spanning topics such as the First and Second World War, German students and professionals, the development of the GDR, post-war German history, and debates about historical methods and historiography. Some of the recent titles include After Hitler (2005), Reluctant Accomplice (2011), and volume 3 of the Geschichte der Humboldt Universitat 1945-2000 (2012).

" - a welcome addition to the literature. It is a collection of some very interesting essays... Jarausch's introduction gives a masterly, balanced overview of the ongoing German unification process. The structure within the subsections of having three different authors (generally a West German, an East German, and an outsider) address the same general question works well." * Andrew Beattie, The University of New South Wales, Sydney "The book succeeds in giving a general overview of the issues connected to German unification, but does so in an unusually dynamic way. It shows unification as not just a state of affairs but a dynamic, tension-filled ongoing process of change and negotiation." * Stephen Brockmann, Carnegie Mellon University

• Preface Introduction: Growing Together? A Tentative Balance Sheet of German Unification Konrad H. Jarausch PART I: POLITICAL PROCESSES Chapter 1.Two Decades of Unity: Continuity and Change in Political Institutions Gero Neugebauer Chapter 2. United, Yet Separate: A View from the East Heinrich Bortfeld Chapter 3.Debates and Perceptions about Unification: The Centrality of Discourse Helga Welsh PART II: ECONOMIC PROBLEMS Chapter 4. Institutional Coping: The Collapse of the East German Economy and the Role of the Treuhandanstalt 1989-1990 Wolfgang Seibel Chapter 5. East Germany 1989 to 2010: A Fragmented Development Rainer Land Chapter 6. Getting Even: East German Economic Underperformance after Unification Jonathan Zatlin PART III: SOCIAL UPHEAVAL Chapter 7. 1989 and the Crisis of Feminist Politics Ute Gerhard Chapter 8. Womens' Movements in East Germany: Are We in Europe Yet? Ingrid Miethe Chapter 9. Feminist Encounters: Germany, the EU and Beyond Myra Marx Ferree PART IV: CULTURAL CONFLICT Chapter 10.After the GDR? Restoring Literature's Standing Klaus Scherpe Chapter 11. Unity and Difference: Some Reflections on a Disparate Field Frank Hornigk Chapter 12. The Painful Exit from the Cold War: East German Writers and the Demise of the Reading Culture Frank Trommler PART V: INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZATION Chapter 13. The 'Normalization' of Humanitarian and Military Missions Abroad Beate Neuss Chapter 14. German Foreign Policy after 1990: Some Critical Remarks Erhard Crome Chapter 15. 'To Deploy or not to Deploy:' The Erratic Evolution of German Foreign Policy since Unification Andrew Port Notes on Contributors Bibliography Index