The Paradox of German Power
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- Synopsis
- Since the Euro crisis began, Germany has emerged as Europe's dominant power. During the last few years, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been compared with Bismarck and even Hitler in the European media. And yet few can deny that Germany today is very different from the stereotype of nineteenth- and twentieth-century history. After nearly seventy years of struggling with the Nazi past, Germans believe that they more than anyone have learned its lessons. Above all, what the new Germany aspires to stand for is peace. Germany is unique in this combination of economic assertiveness and military abstinence. So what does it mean to have a "German Europe" in the twenty-first century? In The Paradox of German Power, Hans Kundnani explains how Germany got to where it is now and where it might go in the future. He explores German national identity and foreign policy through a series of tensions in German thinking and action: between continuity and change, between "normality" and "abnormality," between economics and politics, and between Europe and the world. HANS KUNDNANI is Editorial Director at the European Council on Foreign Relations, having previously worked as a journalist for The Guardian, The Observer, Financial Times, Prospect, and the Times Literary Supplement. He is the author of Utopia or Auschwitz: Germany's 1968 Generation and the Holocaust.
- Copyright:
- 2015
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 147 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780190245504
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Date of Addition:
- 02/01/21
- Copyrighted By:
- Hans Kundnani
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Business and Finance, Politics and Government
- Submitted By:
- Terry Gorman
- Proofread By:
- Terry Gorman
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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