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Author Mushaben, Joyce Marie

Title From Post-War to Post-wall Generations : Changing Attitudes Towards the National Question and Nato in the Federal Republic of Germany
Published Milton : Routledge, 2019

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Contents Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Evolution of National-Security Consciousness in the Postwar German Federal Republic, 1949-1995; The Importance of Generationhood; The Theoretical Focus: Generational Perspectives; Research Methodology: The Pandora's Box of Cohort Analysis; Notes; 1 The Problem of Generations: Identity -- Formation and the New ""Unencumberedness; The Post-Postwar Environment; Defining the Generations; In Search of Individual, Collective, and National Consciousness
The Generational Spectrum: Identities ClassifiedNotes; 2 What Does It Mean to Be German? From Beethoven to Bitburg, From Demagogues to Democrats; Conflicting Images: What Is Typisch Deutsch?; Historical Consciousness: Can the Past Be Conquered?; Symbols, Nationhood, and Nationality; Character Traits and the West German Weltanschauung; Political Interests and Institutional Loyalty; Fundamental Freedoms and Legitimate Protest; Conclusion: The New Germans as Constitutional Patriots; Notes; 3 Perceptions of the Other Germany: ""Renunification Maybe, But I'd Hate to Take My Vacation There
Die da driiben: Images of ""the Other Germans, Citizenship and Assimilation: (Un)Settling Experiences; Reunification: Bidding Adieu to IUusions, 1949-1988; Conclusion: November the 9th and the National Paradigm Shift; Notes; 4 Partnership and Its Discontents: Assessing the Federal Republic's Role in NATO; Understanding West German and American Security Dilemmas; Partisan Perspectives on Identity Questions, 1949-1989; Restoration, Rearmament, and West-Integration, 1949-1963; The Paradigm Shift: Deterrence plus Detente, 1964-1979; Germans to the Front? Redefining National Security Roles; Notes
5 Successor Generations and Security Doctrine: ""Deterrence, Yes, But Not in My BackyardTime-Bomb NATO"" and the Rise of Nuclear Pacifism, 1979-1985; The Spectre of Anti-Americanism, 1979-1985; From Many, One: Consensus-Building in the Peace Movement; Resegmentation of the Peace Movement, 1983-1987; Disarmament and Its Identity Implications, 1985-1990; The Fourth Cycle of Protest: Lessons from the Gulf War; Peace-Keeping Versus the Just-War Theory: Yugoslavia and Beyond; Notes; 6 Generational Differences and the Gender Gap: Identity and Security Consciousness Among West German Women
Reconstructing the Patriarchal Order, 1949-1959Politicized Feminism and the 1960s; Autonomous Feminism and the 1970s; Pragmatic Feminism and the 1980s; National Security as a Women's Issue: Saying No to NATO?; Profiles of the ""Economic Miracle Generation, ; Profiles from the Long March Generation; Profiles from the ""Turn-Around"" Generation; The Morning After: German Women and the New World Order; The Re-Construction of National Identity Among New German Women; The Return of the Repressed: Women, Nationalism, and Identity; Notes; 7 What It Means to Be Non-German: After Unity, the Deluge
Summary In 1984, Italian Foreign Minister Giulio Andreotti aptly summarized popular perception of the divided nationality of the two Germanys, East and West: "There are two German states, and two they shall remain." Few would have disagreed. By the 1980s, both German states had come to occupy respected niches in the international community
Notes The Conundrum of Immigration: Legal and Policy Dimensions
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Subject North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
SUBJECT North Atlantic Treaty Organization fast
NATO. swd
Subject Political culture -- Germany
National characteristics, German.
National security -- Germany -- Public opinion
Public opinion -- Germany
Germans.
Germans
Diplomatic relations
Military policy -- Public opinion
National characteristics, German
National security -- Public opinion
Political culture
Public opinion
Öffentliche Meinung
Nationalsozialismus
Deutsche Frage
SUBJECT Germany -- History -- Unification, 1990. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh91000423
Germany -- Military policy -- Public opinion
Germany -- Foreign relations -- 1990- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh91004369
Subject Germany
Deutschland Bundesrepublik
Deutschland
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780429699061
0429699069
9780429719073
0429719078