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The Routledge Handbook of German Politics and Culture offers a wide-ranging and authoritative account of Germany in the 21st century. It gathers the expertise of internationally leading scholars of German culture, politics, and society to explore and explain
+ historical pathways to contemporary Germany
+ the current ‘Berlin Republic’
+ society and diversity
+ Germany and Europe
+ Germany and the world.
This is an essential resource for students, researchers, and all those looking to understand contemporary German politics and culture.
Contents:
+ Preface - Sarah Colvin
PART I. Pathways to contemporary Germany
1. The history of a European nation - Ute Frevert
2. Humanität, Bildung, Kultur: Germany’s civilizing values - Ritchie Robertson
3. Legacies of a significant past: regimes, experiences, and identities - Mary Fulbrook
4. World War II in German cultural memory: Dresden as lieu de mémoire - Anne Fuchs
5. Modell Deutschland: from the Bonn to the Berlin Republic - Jeffrey Anderson
PART II. The Berlin Republic
6. The political and constitutional order - Eric Langenbacher
7. Party politics and electoral behaviour - Thomas Saalfeld and Harald Schoen
8. Citizenship - Helen Williams
9. Social wellbeing and democracy - Patricia Hogwood
10.Being East German in the Berlin Republic - Laurence McFalls with Alexandra Hausstein
11. Visual culture: memory work and arts of the present - Andrew Webber
PART III. Society and diversity
12. Immigration and integration - Alex Street and Randall Hansen
13.Germany as Kulturnation? Identity in diversity - Wilfried van der Will and Rob Burns
14 .Theatre and diversity - Christel Weiler
15. Religious diversity - Volkhard Krech
16. Gender and sexuality - Clare Bielby and Frauke Matthes
17. ‘Grey’ culture - Stuart Taberner
PART IV. Germany and Europe
18. Germany and Europe: negotiating identity in a multicultural present - Fatima El Tayeb
19. The place of Europe in contemporary German film - Paul Cooke
20. The making of German European policy - William E. Paterson
21. German power and ‘embedded hegemony’ in Europe - Beverly Crawford
22. The approach to finance in the European context - Lothar Funk
23. Climate protection policy: ecological modernization, industrial competitiveness, and Europeanization - Rainer Hillebrand
PART V. Germany and the world
24. Europeanization and globalization as drivers of the German growth model - Kurt Hübner
25. Foreign policy: from ‘civilian power’ to ‘trading state’? - Hanns W. Maull
26. Germany and America 1945-2012 - James Sperling
27. Sport politics - Jonathan Grix
28. Cultural outreach: overcoming the past - Gregory Paschalidis
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