Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Kiran Klaus Patel
Part I. The Intersection between European Integration and Unification I: Germany as Part of East Central Europe
Co-transformation since 1990: A German Path and Perspective, with European Ramifications
Philipp Ther
Old Walls Crumble, New Borders Appear: Polish Perspectives on German Unification and European Integration
Florian Peters
Return to the Periphery of Central Europe: Hungary’s "Long Refolution," German Unification, and European Integration
Ferenc Laczó
The Reluctant Neighbour: Romania’s Position on the German Question and the Deepening of Western Integration
Elena Dragomir
Part II. The Intersection between European Integration and Unification II: Germany as Part of "the West"
"Europe Whole and Free": The United States, European Integration, and the Failure of "New Atlanticism"
Philipp Gassert
The German Question and the British Inability to Give a European Answer
Mathias Haeussler
"Two Sides of the Same Coin": France’s European Response to the Challenge of German Unification, 1989–90
Hélène Miard-Delacroix
German Unification and European Integration: Deconstructing the Italian Trade-Off Narrative
Gabriele D’Ottavio
Part III. The EC and German Unification: Economic and Monetary Integration
"Un phénomène globalement positif": The European Commission, German Unification, and the Future of Europe, 1989–90
Victor Jaeschke
Germany, German Unity, and the European Monetary Experiment
Harold James
A Question of Timing: The Strasbourg EC Summit and the Acceleration of the Maastricht Process
Andreas Wirsching
Shaping Markets in Eastern Germany (and Western Europe): Multinational Dimensions of State Aid to Steel
Keith R. Allen
Part IV. Integration beyond Economics and Its Intersection with German Unification
A Crucial Step towards Europeanization? German Unification and the Creation of the Common Foreign and Security Policy in the 1990s
Gabriele Clemens
Police Cooperation for an Ever Closer Union: The Impact of Long-Term Factors and the Momentum of 1989–90 in the Europol Foundation Process
Eva Oberloskamp
Stability, Reliability, Identity: Parliamentary Debates on European Unification in East, West, and Unified Germany, 1990–2
Dominik Geppert
German Unification, the Laender, and the Europeanization of the Political System of Federal Germany
Guido Thiemeyer
List of Contributors
Index
