In Europe's Name Germany and the Divided Continent

by ASH, TIMOTHY GARTON

• ISBN13: 9780679755579
• ISBN10: 0679755578
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-11-01
• Publisher: Vintage

Summary

For forty-five years Europe was divided, and at the center of that divided continent lay a divided Germany. Throughout that time West German politicians were trying to reunite their sundered country, even as they performed an intricate diplomatic minuet with their European -- and, particularly, their American -- allies and East Germany's Soviet sponsors.

Author Biography

Timothy Garton Ash is a fellow of St. Antony’s College, Oxford. Celebrated for his essays in the New York Review of Books, he is the author of The Polish Revolution, which won the Somerset Maugham Award; The Uses of Adversity, which won the Prix Européen de l’Essai; Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World; and The Magic Lantern, his eyewitness account of the Central European revolutions of 1989, which has been translated into 14 languages. He lives in Oxford with his wife and two sons.

Table of Contents

Prologue: European Question
Which question?	p. 1
Yalta	p. 5
A unique divide	p. 6
Healing?	p. 11
German Answers
The divided centre	p. 14
European peace order	p. 16
Two questions or one?	p. 19
The European interest	p. 25
Ostpolitik
Was there one?	p. 28
In a word	p. 34
Causes and sources	p. 42
Bonn-Moscow-Berlin
'Our most important task'	p. 48
The road from Berlin	p. 58
Treaty work	p. 67
System and crisis	p. 83
A new book	p. 98
Germany and Germany
Foundations	p. 126
Thoughts, words and deeds	p. 132
For people and the people	p. 136
From Germany to Germany	p. 141
Permanent negotiation	p. 149
The German Mark	p. 152
Recognition	p. 162
Liberalisation through stabilisation?	p. 176
Stabilisation without liberalisation	p. 185
Liberation by destabilisation	p. 197
Success and failure	p. 203
Beyond the Oder
History and frontiers	p. 216
Compatriots	p. 231
Carrots and sticks	p. 244
Weaving	p. 258
Stability before liberty	p. 279
Reconciliation	p. 298
A Second Ostpolitik
Social Democrats in the 1980s	p. 312
Shadow policy	p. 319
After the event	p. 330
German Unification
Refolution and revolution	p. 344
Peace, agreement and Realpolitik	p. 347
The last treaty work	p. 354
Findings
German and European	p. 357
Ostpolitik and the end	p. 362
German model	p. 371
Epilogue: European Answers?
Consequences	p. 378
European Germany, German Europe	p. 384
Why Europe? Which Europe?	p. 388
Beyond Ostpolitik	p. 393
Possibilities	p. 408
Abbreviations	p. 411
Unpublished sources	p. 415
Short titles	p. 417
Notes	p. 428
Chronology	p. 612
Maps	p. 642
Tables and Graphs	p. 649
Acknowledgements	p. 662
Index	p. 665
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