Cold War Politics in Postwar Germany
During the Cold War, the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), a divided nation on the front-line of the East-West confrontation, came down with pneumonia every time the superpowers sneezed. Due to the East-West confrontation splitting Germany in two, the Co
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COLD WAR POLITICS IN POSTWAR GERMANY
Copyright © David F. Patton, 1999. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1999 978-0-333-76527-2 First published in hardcover in 1999 by St. Martin’s Press First PALGRAVETM edition: May 2001 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 and Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England RG21 6XS Companies and representatives throughout the world. PALGRAVE is the new global publishing imprint of St. Martin’s Press LLC Scholarly and Reference Division and Palgrave Publishers Ltd (formerly Macmillan Press Ltd). ISBN 978-1-349-41499-4
ISBN 978-0-312-29961-3 (eBook)
DOI 10.1057/9780312299613
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Patton, David F., 1963Cold War politics in postwar Germany / David F. Patton. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-349-41499-4 1. Germany—Foreign relations—1945– 2. World politics—1945I. Title. DD257.4.P32 1999 327.43’009’045—dc21 98–41912 CIP A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Design by Letra Libre, Inc. First paperback edition: May 2001 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Contents
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction
1 Part I The Founding Era
Chapter 1: Cold War and Codetermination
15
Chapter 2: An Alliance for a New Westpolitik
35
Part II The Détente Era Chapter 3: Détente and Democracy
61
Chapter 4: An Alliance for a New Ostpolitik
79
Part III Unification Chapter 5: The Two Dimensions of Deutschlandpolitik
107
Chapter 6: An Alliance for a New Deutschlandpolitik
125
Conclusion
147
Notes Selected Bibliography Index
157 197 213
Acknowledgments
For their support on this project, I am indebted to many individuals and institutions. Foremost, I would like to thank my family and friends for their patience and encouragement. Peter Katzenstein, Jonas Pontusson, Martin Shefter, and Sydney Tarrow all made insightful comments during the early stages of this project at Cornell University. As a fellow at the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies, I had the opportunity to witness Germany’s unification firsthand. I am indebted to the directors of the Berlin Program, Monika Medick-Krakau and Ingeborg Mehser, for their support during and after my fellowship there. As a Research Associate at the Center for German and European Studies at Georgetown University, I researched and wrote the third case study. I would also like to thank Connecticut College for providing me with generous research support. While a fellow of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in 1997, I developed a better understanding of politics in Germany since unification. I would like to thank Mary McKenzie, Michael Harvey, Greg Colman, my readers at St. Martin’s Press, and above all Robert Kahn, who carefully read and commented on the manuscript in its entirety. For his many hours of hard work at Yale’s
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