The Paradox of German Power - Couverture rigide

Kundnani, Editorial Director Hans

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0190245506 ISBN 13 : 9780190245504

Editeur : Oxford University Press, USA, 2015

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Since the Euro crisis began, Germany has emerged as Europe's dominant power. During the last three 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 think that they more than anyone have learned its lessons. Above all, what the new Germany thinks it stands 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 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.

Revue de presse :

'In 'The Paradox of German Power,' a punchy and persuasive survey of 150 years of German foreign policy, Hans Kundnani argues that history has returned to Europe. His first book, 'Utopia or Auschwitz,' was an excellent study of the hold that Germany's Nazi past retains on the moral imagination of leading politicians like Joschka Fischer. But his conclusions are sobering. 'The Europe that is emerging from the crisis,' he warns, 'is not so much German as chaotic'.' --Wall Street Journal

'A major contribution to our understanding of the evolution of contemporary Europe.' --Anthony Giddens

'This is an intelligent, [...] lively and well-written survey of recent German foreign policy and Hans Kundnani's emphasis on Germany as a geo-economic power will be influential.' --International Affairs

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press, USA
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0190245506
• ISBN 13: 9780190245504
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 156