Table of Contents
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 Hörnigk
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