The Federal Republic of Germany and the United States
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About the Book and Editors
The Federal Republic of Germany and the United States: Changing Political, Social, and Economic Relations
edited by James A. Cooney, Gordon A. Craig, Hans Peter Schwarz, and Fritz Stem
This book examines the current and historical dimensions of relations between the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany, focusing on the complex economic issues that make the two countries interdependent and on the resulting policy implications. The contributors analyze the reasons for increasingly problematic relations between the United States and West Germany, arguing that the situation is exacerbated by the inadequate understanding Americans often have of the changing nature of society, politics, and culture in West Germany.
James A. Cooney is executive director of the McCloy German Scholars Program and adjunct lecturer in public policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Gordon A. Craig is J. E. Wallace Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Stanford University. Hans Peter Schwarz is professor of political science and director of the Institute for Political Science and European Issues at the University of Cologne. Fritz Stern is past provost and Seth Low Professor of History at Columbia University.
Published in cooperation with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
First published 1984 by Westview Press
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KURT BIEDENKOPF, Chairman, Christian Democratic Union in Westphalen-Lippe
JAMES H. BILLINGTON, Director, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
JAMES A. COONEY, Adjunct Lecturer and Executive Director, McCloy German Scholars Program, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
GORDON A. CRAIG, J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor of the Humanities Emeritus, Stanford University
REIMUT JOCHIMSEN, Minister for Economics, Business, and Transportation, North Rhine-Westphalia
JOSEF JOFFE, Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; former Fellow, The Wilson Center
SIDNEY L. JONES, Undersecretary for Economic Affairs, U.S. Department of Commerce; former Fellow, The Wilson Center
RICHARD LWENTHAL, Professor of International Relations Emeritus, Free University, Berlin
ERNEST MAY, Charles Warren Professor of History, Harvard University; former Fellow, The Wilson Center
JRGEN MOLTMANN, Professor of Theology, University of Tbingen
JAMES R. SCHLESINGER, Senior Advisor, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown University; former U.S. Secretary of Defense
HANS PETER SCHWARZ, Professor of Political Science and Director, Research Institute for Political Science and European Issues, University of Cologne; former Fellow, The Wilson Center
FRITZ STERN, Seth Low Professor of History, Columbia University
by James H. Billington
This volume on German-American relations is the culmination of a project that began in the early 1980s and has involved many people. It originated in the general awareness that the long postwar era of relatively secure consensus in North Atlantic relations was ending and the specific belief that the Wilson Center should begin to consider a new program on Europe. European scholars and European problems have always played a large part in the life of the Wilson Center. Because the Federal Republic plays such a critical role within Europe and the Atlantic Alliance, it seemed fitting to focus first on Germany. Thus, the Wilson Center organized and convened in Washington on September 2123, 1983 a conference for 40 German and American core participants on German-American Relations and the Future Role of the Federal Republic in Europe and the World, which produced the papers that led to this volume.
As a living memorial to a scholar-president, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars seeks to provide scholarly perspective in a present-minded city not merely to recycle anguish about current events with fashionable phrases. In originally conceiving of such a gathering I was specially guided by the advice and example of the many great German scholars who fled from Nazism and deepened the perspective of our own country in the postwar era: Theodor Mommsen, who introduced me to serious scholarship as my first faculty adviser in college, and Klaus Epstein, who introduced me to scholarly collegiality when I first began to teach a decade later. It is my hope that both the conference and the volume will be worthy of such people.
