TY - BOOK ID - 101403298 TI - The legacy and impact of German unification : the elusive dream of 'flourishing landscapes' AU - Oswald, Michael AU - Robertson, John Douglas PY - 2022 SN - 9783030971540 3030971546 3030971538 PB - Cham, Switzerland : Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Germany KW - History KW - Politics and government KW - Economic history. KW - Social history. KW - Germany. KW - Economic conditions KW - History, Economic KW - Economics KW - Descriptive sociology KW - Social conditions KW - Social history KW - Sociology KW - Alemania KW - Ashkenaz KW - BRD KW - Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh German Uls KW - Bundesrepublik Deutschland KW - Deguo KW - 德国 KW - Deutsches Reich KW - Deutschland KW - Doitsu KW - Doitsu Renpō Kyōwakoku KW - Federal Republic of Germany KW - Federalʹna Respublika Nimechchyny KW - FRN KW - Gėrman KW - German Uls KW - Герман Улс KW - Germania KW - Germanii︠a︡ KW - Germanyah KW - Gjermani KW - Grossdeutsches Reich KW - Jirmānīya KW - KhBNGU KW - Kholboony Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh German Uls KW - Nimechchyna KW - Repoblika Federalin'i Alemana KW - República de Alemania KW - República Federal de Alemania KW - Republika Federal Alemmana KW - Vācijā KW - Veĭmarskai︠a︡ Respublika KW - Weimar Republic KW - Weimarer Republik KW - ХБНГУ KW - Германия KW - جرمانيا KW - ドイツ KW - ドイツ連邦共和国 KW - ドイツ レンポウ キョウワコク KW - Germany (East) KW - Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955) KW - Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : British Zone) KW - Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : French Zone) KW - Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : Russian Zone) KW - Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : U.S. Zone) KW - Germany (West) KW - Holy Roman Empire UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:101403298 AB - On October 3, 1990 the future of both Europe and Germany became powerfully and inexorably intertwined across a politically broadened continent powering transformative social, political and economic interactions. The thirty year mark after the then reigning chancellor Helmut Kohl promised 'flourishing landscapes' in the former GDR is more than just a new anniversary from which mandatory reflections must follow. Arguably, it represents a temporal boundary between the adjustments and reactions conditioned and captivated by a sense of something new and uncertain, and that point moving forward from which unifications legacy inescapably tethers Germanys future to normal politics shaped by the issues of the moment, and not politics gripped by the debates of unification itself. That legacy is defined by an accumulation over thirty years of adjustments, mutations, counter-adjustments and strategic reactions which have now delivered through the many ripples of change a Germany managing the course-trajectory which unification has relentlessly plotted. The foreseeable future will certainly see that legacy of unification tenaciously continue to project yet shrouded within the background of Germanys routine politics. This volume explores that legacy within the post-unification era and reflects on the way forward into a near-term German future no longer consumed with unification itself but with the reality of politics it has steadily defined. Michael Oswald is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Passau, Germany, Research Associate at the John F. Kennedy Institute, Free University of Berlin, Germany, Faculty at the Institute of European and International Studies (CIFE), France, and the author of The Palgrave Handbook of Populism (2021). John Robertson is Professor of Political Science at Texas A&M University, USA. He is the author and co-author of numerous articles dealing with European affairs and comparative politics published in leading political science journals, including the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Comparative Politics, German Politics, International Political Science Review, and International Studies Quarterly. ER -