Paradox of German Power - Rilegato

Hans Kundnani

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ISBN 10: 1849044155 ISBN 13: 9781849044158

Casa editrice: C Hurst & Co (Publishers)Ltd, 2014

Riassunto

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.

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'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

L'autore:

Hans Kundnani is Editorial Director at the European Council on Foreign Relations, having previously worked as a journalist for The Guardian, The Observer, Financial Times, Prospect and the Times Literary Supplement. He is the author of Utopia or Auschwitz: Germany's 1968 Generation and the Holocaust, also published by Hurst.

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• Editore: C Hurst & Co (Publishers)Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1849044155
• ISBN 13: 9781849044158
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 176