Germany in Europe in the Nineties

287 Pages·1996·26.594 MB·English

by  Bertel Heurlin (eds.)

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Germany in Europe in the nineties I edited by Bertel HeUl'lin.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-312-16148-4
I. Germany-History-Unification, 1990. 2. Germany-Foreign
relations-1990- 3. Germany-Foreign relations-Europe. 4. Europe
-Foreign relations-Germany. J. Hcurlin, Bertel.
DD290.29.G493 1996
943.087'9--dc20 96-9308
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Selection and editorial matter © Bertel Heurlin 1996
Chapters I-II © Macmillan Press Ltd 1996
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Notes on the Contributors
Yves Boyer is currently Deputy Director ofCREST, a French
think-tank dealing with international affairs and security is
sues. He is teaching international relations at the Ecole
Politechnique and the French army academy in Saint Cyr.
He has been Research Associate at the International Insti
tute for Strategic Studies in 1982/83 and Senior Researcher
at IFRI. He has also been Wilson Research Associate. He
has published regularly in French and foreign magazines
such as Politique Etragire, DefenseNational, Europa Archiv and
The Washington Quarterly.
Lily Gardner Feldman is Senior Scholar in Residence at the
Center for German and European Studies, Georgetown
University. She has been the Research Director of the Ameri
can Institute for Contemporary German Studies, Johns
Hopkins University (1991-95), and a Professor of Political
Science at Tufts University (1978-91). Her work on Ger
man foreign policy and on the European Community in
cludes The SpecialRelationship betweenWest Germany and Israel
(1984), The EC in the International Arena: A New Activism?
(1992), Germanyand theEC:Realism and Responsibility (1994),
and Transatlantic Relations (1995).
Helga Haftendorn is Professor of International Relations at
the Free University of Berlin, and Director of its Center for
Transatlantic Foreign and Security Policy Studies. From 1989
to 1991 she was President of the International Studies Asso
ciation. She earned her Ph.D. at the University of Frank
furt, and her Habilitation (post-doctorate degree) at the
University of Hamburg. Her best-known publication is her
book Sicherheit und Entspannung. Zur Aussenpolitik der
Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1955-82 (2nd ed., Baden-Baden:
Nomos 1986). Her most recent publication is KernwalJen und
die Glaubwiirdigkeit der Allianz. Die NATO-Krise von 1966/67
(Baden-Baden: Nomos 1994).
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viii Notes on the Contributors
Bertel Heurlin was born in 1935. He is Research Director,
Danish Institute of International Affairs and Jean Monnet
Professor ofEuropean Integration and Security at the Insti
tute of Political Science, University of Copenhagen. From
1992 to 1996 he was Director of CORE, the Copenhagen
Research Project on European Integration. Until 1995 he
has been co-Chairman of SNU. the Danish Committee on
Security and Disarmament. He was a member of the Danish
Defense Committee of 1988. He is author, editor and co
author of 35 books and numerous articles dealing with in
ternational politics and foreign policy, security and strategy.
His latest book is Security Problems in the New Europe, 1995.
Christopher Hill is a Montague Burton Professor of Inter
national Relations at the London School of Economics and
Political Science. Among his best-known publications are
National ForeignPoliciesand European Political Cooperation(cd.,
1983), Cabinet Decisions on ForeignPolicy; the British Experience
1938-1941 (cd. with Pamela Beshoff, Cambridge University
Press, 1991), and Two Worlds of International Relations: Aca
demics, Practitioners and the Trade in Ideas (Routledge, 1994).
He has held visiting positions at the Royal Institute of In
ternational Affairs (London), the Woodrow Wilson Interna
tional Center for Scholars (Washington, D.C.), Dartmouth
College, New Hampshire and the European University In
stitute (Florence). He is currently Convenor of the Depart
ment of International Relations, LSE.
Josef Joffe is columnist and editorial page editor of the
Siiddeutsche Zeitung in Munich, Germany's largest quality pa
per. Previously, he served as a senior editor of Die Zeit. He
has taught international relations at Harvard, the School of
Advanced International Studies (Johns Hopkins) and the
University of Munich. His journalistic work has been pub
lished in major newspapers on either side of the Atlantic.
His scholarly work appears in International Security, The Na
tional Interest, Foreign Affairs and Survival. He is the author
ofLimitedPartnership:Europe,Americaand theBurden ofAlliance.
Michael Kreile is Professor of International Politics at the
Humboldt Universitat in Berlin. He was educated at Tiibingen,
Notes on the Contributors ix
Paris, Heidelberg and Harvard. Dr Kreile was Professor of
International Politics at the University of Constance (1982
92), the Visiting Konrad Adenauer Professor at Georgetown
University, Washington, D.C. (1980-81), and Assistant Pro
fessor at the Institute of Political Science, University of
Heidelberg (1974-82). His publications include Gewerkschaften
urulArbeitsbeziehungen in Italien 1968-1972 (1985), Europa 1992
- Konzeption, Strategien, Aussenwirkungen (ed., 1991), Die Inte
gration Europas (ed., 1992).
Ekkehart Krippendorff was born in 1934. He is a Professor
of Political Science at the Free University of Berlin. He is
also an author of various books in this field, ranging from
International Politics, CritiqueoftheMilitary and works in peace
research to books on Goethe (1988), Politics in Shakespeare
(1992) and other political interpretations of literature.
Roger Morgan is a Professor of Political Science in the Eu
ropean University Institute in Florence. He previously held
senior research appointments at the Royal Institute of In
ternational Affairs and the Policy Studies Institute, London.
He has also held teaching or research appointments at a
number of British and American universities, and has pub
lished numerous books on European and international at:
fairs. These include The United States and West Germany,
1945-73: A Study in Alliance Politics, West Germany's Foreign
PolicyAgenda: The Political/Economic Balance (1978), and New
Diplomacy in the Post Cold War World (co-author and co-edi
tor, 1993).
Richard Miinch was born in 1945. He is Professor of Sociol
ogy at the University of Bamberg. From 1976 to 1995 he
was a Professor at the University of Dusseldorf, and from
1974 to 1976 at the University ofCologne. Some ofhis major
publications are Theone des Handelns (1982), Die Kultur der
Moderne(1986), Dialektik derKommunikationsgesellschaft (1991),
Das Projekt Europa (1993), Sociological Theory (1994), and
Dynamik der Kommunikationsgesellschaft (1995).
Vitaly Zhurkin was born in 1928 in Moscow. He became a
Doctor of History in 1975, and has been a Professor since
x Notes on the Contributors
1977and a member of the Russian Academy ofScience (RAS)
since 1984. He has been a Director of the Institute of Eu
rope, RAS, since 1987 and Head of the Division of World
Economy and International Relations, RA..'i, (7 institutes) since
1991. He became a member of the European Academy of
Science, Art and Humanities in 1990, and of the World
Academy of Art and Science in 1994. His publications in
clude International Conflicts (1972), Strategic Stability (985),
ReasonableSufficiency and NewPoliticalThinking (1989), Building
the GreaterEurope (1991), and The European Integration and
its Impact on Experience ofRussia and CIS (1993).