Table of Contents

* A Troubled Identity and a Difficult Fatherland * Cultural Change and National Identity in West Germany * East Germany: An Enduring Legacy? * Shifting Traditions and Lessons in Foreign Policy * Philosophical and Ideological Orientations in West German Foreign Policy, 1945-1990 * The Last Cold War Decade: A New German Question? * The Unification of Germany and the Transformation of Europe * United But Not Yet Unified: Germany Between Past and Future * Tradition and Innovation in Contemporary German Foreign Policy

About the Author

Dirk Verheyen is associate professor of political science at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He is coeditor of The Germans and Their neighbours (Westview Press, 1993), and is currently completing a study entitled Monumental Politics: Identity and Memory in Post-Cold War Berlin.