The New Germany: History, Economy, Policies

The New Germany offers a selected overview focusing on the most important issues of Germany's post-war history (1945-2010), its socio-economic and political system, and the foreign relations of today's united Germany/Federal Republic of Germany. The book combines the description of institutions and policies/politics with the discussion about basic principles and ideas of the German socio-economic model, and its understanding of modern democracy and good governance. The extensive section on foreign relations presents an overview on Germany's foreign policy, security policy, European policy, and development policy. It also examines Germany's relations to its neighbors France and Poland, as well as the US and Russia. The New Germany serves as a general introduction and overview of today's Germany - with its facts, graphs, statistics, and photographs to specific subjects. The book also discusses Germany's underlying political problems. Useful as a textbook, it is aimed at students of German Studies/European Studies, Economics, Comparative Politics, and International Relations/Foreign Policy.