5 “Europe Whole and Free”: The United States, European Integration, German Unification, and the Failure of “New Atlanticism”

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Abbreviations xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Part One – The Intersection between European Integration and Unification I: Germany as Part of East Central Europe
7. 1 Cotransformation since 1990: A German Path and Perspective, with European Ramifications 33
8. 2 Old Walls Crumble, New Barriers Appear: Polish Perspectives on German Reunification and European Integration 56
9. 3 Return to the Periphery of Central Europe: Hungary’s “Long Refolution,” German Unification, and European Integration 83
10. 4 The Reluctant Neighbour: Romania’s Position on the German Question and the Deepening of Western Integration 105
11. Part Two – The Intersection between European Integration and Unification II: Germany as Part of “the West”
12. 5 “Europe Whole and Free”: The United States, European Integration, German Unification, and the Failure of “New Atlanticism” 129
13. 6 The German Question and the British Inability to Give a European Answer 154
14. 7 “Two Sides of the Same Coin”: France’s European Response to the Challenge of German Unification, 1989/1990 175
15. 8 German Unification and European Integration: Deconstructing the Italian Trade-Off Narrative 195
16. Part Three – The EC and German Unification: Economic and Monetary Integration
17. 9 “Un phénomène globalement positif”: The European Commission, German Unification, and the Future of Europe, 1989/1990 223
18. 10 Germany, German Unity, and the European Monetary Experiment 244
19. 11 A Question of Timing: The Strasbourg EC Summit and the Acceleration of the Maastricht Process 266
20. 12 Shaping Markets in Eastern Germany (and Western Europe): Multinational Dimensions of State Aid to Steel 280
21. Part Four – Integration beyond Economics and Its Intersection with German Unification
22. 13 A Crucial Step towards Europeanization? German Unification and the Creation of the Common Foreign and Security Policy in the 1990s 303
23. 14 Police Cooperation for an Ever Closer Union: The Impact of Long-Term Factors and the Momentum of 1989/1990 in the Europol Foundation Process 324
24. 15 Stability, Reliability, Identity: Parliamentary Debates on European Unification in East, West, and Unified Germany, 1990–1992 344
25. 16 The Länder between European Integration and German Unification, 1986–1992: The Transformation of German Federalism 364
26. Contributors 383
27. Index 387