Contents -- Notes on the Contributors -- Introduction: Fifty Years of the FRG -- Part I German Identity at the Cusp of a New Century -- Germany's Past Viewed after Fifty Years of Democracy -- The Changing Politics of German National Identity -- Coming to Terms with the Nation: The Political and Literary Voices of Women -- Integration and Identity in German Politics -- Visions of Democracy -- Part II New Directions among the German Leadership -- Elections and Political Change: a German -- Kohl's Legacy: The CDU/ CSU in a New Era -- The SPD Leaders in Power and in Opposition -- A Divided Left: The SPD and the Reformed Communists in -- Eastern Germany -- East German Leadership after Unification: The Search for Voice -- The Green Party's Transformation: The 'New Politics' Party Grows up* -- The PDS: an Unexpected Intruder from the East -- Part III Aging Governmental Structures -- Whither the German Party- State in the 1990s? -- Fifty Years of German Federalism: An Overview and Some Current Developments -- The Politics of German Cities: A Tale of Visions, Money, and Democracy -- Part IV Political Processes and Policies -- German Economic Policy after Fifty Years -- The Lasting Legacy of the Bundesbank: Fifty Years of Deutschmark Politics -- German Trade Unionism: Achievements, Problematics, Future Imperatives* -- The German Media at the End of the Twentieth Century -- Part IV Germany in Europe and in the World -- The German Quest for Geo- Economic Security since 1945 -- Franco-German Military Relations -- Will EMU Come as Intended and on Time?* -- Public Opinion and European Integration -- Barometer of a New Germany: Relations with Central- East Europe -- Part VI Conclusion -- German Identity through the Dark Mirror of the War -- Index.