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THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF FOREIGN POLICY IN SOUTHEAST ASIA
The Internationalization
of the German Political
Economy
Evolution of a Hegemonic Project
Edited by
William D. Graf
Professor and Chair
Department of Political Studies
University of Guelph, Ontario
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The Internationalization of the German Political Economy: evolution
of a hegemonic project I edited by William D. Graf.
p. em.-(International political economy series)
Includes index.
ISBN 978-0-312-08099-0
I. Germany (West}--Economic policy. 2. Germany (West}--Foreign
economic relations. 3. International division of labor.
4. Germany-European Economic Community. 5. Germany-History
-Unification, 1990. 6. International economic relations. I. Graf,
William D. II. Series.
HC286.7.1575 1992
338.943-<lc20 92-3189
CIP
To the memory of
Wolfgang Abendroth
Scholar-Socialist-Anti-Nazi
Contents
List of Tables ix
List of Foreign Abbre1•iations and Terms xi
Notes on the Contributors XV
Acknowledgements XVJII
Map of Germany xix
Introduction
William D. Graf
2 Internationalization and Exoneration: Social Functions
of the Transnationalizing West German Political
Economy in the Post-war Era 8
William D. Graf
3 Change and Internationalization in Industry: Towards a
Sectoral Interpretation of West German Politics 25
Christian Deubner
4 The Federal Republic and the New International
Division of Labour: Crucial Developments in the 1970s 64
Georg Simonis
5 Internationalization and the Reorganization of
Production and Marketing in the Volkswagen
Corporation 90
Reinhard Doleschal
6 The Integration of the West German Textile and
Clothing Industry into the New International Division of
Labour 110
Sibylle Raasch and Philipp W ahnschaffe
7 Franco-German Economic Relations Within the
International Division of Labour: Interdependence,
Divergence or Structural Dominance? 140
Christian Deubner, Udo Rehfeld and Frieder Schlupp
VII
viii Contents
8 Towards the New Germany: The Logic of Rapid
Unification and the Social Experiment of Radical
Marketization in the GDR 187
Andreas Pickel
9 The Transformation of the East German Economy: The
Visions of the German Parties and Governments - and
the Reality 204
Jorg Roesler
10 The 'New' Germany and the Third World: Aspects of a
Changing Relationship 222
Brigitte H. Schulz
II International Aspects of an Alternative Economic Policy 261
Karl-Georg Zinn
12 Gross-Deutschland in Europe: Planned or Unplanned
Effects of the German Anschlujl on Hegemonic
Leadership in the European Community 285
Thomas 0. Hueglin
13 World-Market Strategy and World-Power Politics:
German Europeanization and Globalization Projects in
the 1990s 307
Frieder Schlupp
Index 347
List of Tables
3.1 Sectoral composition of West German exports, 1947-54 28
5.1 Domestic/foreign production and exports of VW
domestic subsidiaries, 1970-88 95
5.2 Major marketing areas of the Volkswagen Corporation 95
5.3 Sales of West German VW and Audi production, 1970/
1975/1982 97
5.4 CKD exports 97
5.5 CKD and FBU exports, 1970-83 100
5.6 Employment trends within the Volkswagen
Corporation 106
6.1 Development of foreign trade intensity in the textile
and clothing sectors 113
6.2 The ten largest suppliers of clothing to the FRG 119
9.1 Daily work performance in industry and construction,
September 1989-January 1990 212
9.2 Growth rates of the GDR economy, 1980-1989 212
10.1 Sectoral distribution of bilateral ODA, 1950-88 235
10.2 Regional concentration of bilateral ODA, 1950-88 236
10.3 Principle recipients of West German aid, 1950-88 239
10.4 Principle recipients of West German aid, 1988 240
10.5 Percentage share of jobs dependent on exports 241
10.6 Main trading partners, 1985 242
10.7 West German imports from developing countries,
1980-88 245
10.8 West Germany's main LDC trading partners-imports,
1988 245
10.9 West German exports to developing countries, 1980-88 246
I 0.10 Main trading partners - exports, 1988 246
10.11 West German direct foreign investments, 1975-88 250
11.1 Per capita exports 268
13.1 West Germany: core industries in the late 1980s 323
13.2 West German direct investment abroad: country
concentration, year end 1987 324
13.3 The top 100 West German industrial corporations,
1988 326
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X List of Tables
13.4 The top 50 West German industrial multinationals,
1988 330
13.5 West German core industrial multinational
corporations, 1988 332
13.6 Comprehensive ranking of leading West German
industrial corporations in terms of future potential,
based on performance data in 1988 333
13.7 The top I 0 capitalist corporations in 4 selected
industries, 1988 334
