Rethinking Germany and Europe: Democracy and Diplomacy in a Semi-Sovereign State

by Stephen Padgett (Editor), C. Jeffery (Editor), Kenneth A. Loparo (Editor)

Overview

Explores the paths of development unfolding from the inter-dependent histories of postwar Germany and the European integration process. The contributors explore these histories within the idea of 'semi-sovereignty': a set of constraints on the German state's power within the external constraints of Germany's multilateral commitments.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230236554
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	04/09/2010
Edition description:	2010
Pages:	243
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

WILLIAM M. CHANDLER is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, USA CLAY CLEMENS is Chancellor Professor of Government at the College of William and Mary, USA RICHARD GILLESPIE is Professor in the School of Politics and Communication Studies at the University of Liverpool, UK WYN GRANT is Professor of Politics at the University of Warwick, UK SIMON GREEN is Professor of Politics and Co-Director of the Aston Centre for Europe (ACE) at Aston University, UK EMIL KIRCHNER is Professor of European Studies at the University of Essex, UK HANNS MAULL is Professor for Foreign Policy and International Relations at the University of Trier, Germany ALISTER MISKIMMON is Senior Lecturer in European Politics and International Relations at the Department of Politics and International Relations, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK THOMAS POGUNTKE is Professor in Political Science and the German Political System at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany JOHN ROPER is Chairman of the European Union Select Committee in the House of Lords. He was from 1990-1995 the first Director of the Western European Union Institute for Security Studies in Paris, France MANFRED G. SCHMIDT is Dean of the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany GORDON SMITH is Professor Emeritus of Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK JAMES SPERLING is Professor of Political Science at the Universityof Akron, USA.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figure vii

Acknowledgements viii

Notes on Contributors ix

1 Democracy and Diplomacy, Germany and Europe Simon Bulmer Charlie Jeffery Stephen Padgett 1

Part I Democracy and Governance in Germany

2 The Chancellor and Her Party Clay Clemens 25

3 Reinventing Social Democracy? Political Opportunity Structures in Germany and Spain Stephen Padgett Richard Gillespie 42

4 Landmark Elections in Germany Thomas Poguntke Gordon Smith 59

5 The Policy of the Middle Way: Germany since 1990 Manfred G. Schmidt 73

6 Beyond Semi-Sovereignty?: Economic Governance in Germany Simon Green 85

7 Government and Industry Relations Wyn Grant 97

Part II European Contexts

8 Does Congruence Matter? Germany and Britain in the European Union Simon Bulmer Charlie Jeffery 113

9 Germany's Role in European and International Security: Aims versus Action Emil J. Kirchner 139

10 European Leadership in Transition: Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy William M. Chandler 154

11 Gulliver's Travail: Crafting a New Transatlantic Bargain James Sperling 171

12 The Stille Allianz Revisited Alister Miskimmon John Roper 188

13 Europe as a Global 'Civilian' Power? Hanns W. Maull 200

Bibliography 221

Index 241