German Europe (eBook)

Ulrich Beck is one of the world's leading sociologists and social thinkers, well-known for his best-selling book Risk Society. He is Emeritus Professor at Munich, London and Paris.

Preface

Introduction. Europe: To Be or Not to Be: The decision facing
Germany.

I How the euro crisis is both tearing Europe apart and uniting
it

1. How German austerity policies are dividing Europe - the
governments are for it, the peoples are

against

2. The achievements of the European Union

3. The blindness of economics

4. European domestic politics: the national concept

of politics is outmoded

5. The EU crisis is not a debt crisis

II Europe's new power coordinates: the path to a German
Europe

1. Europe under threat and the crisis of politics

2. The new landscape of European power

3. 'Merkiavelli': hesitation as a means of
coercion

III A social contract for Europe

1. More freedom through more Europe

2. More social security through more Europe

3. More democracy through more Europe

4. The question of power: who will enforce the social
contract?

5. A European spring?

Notes

"A compelling analysis of Germany."
--The Economist

"A blistering indictment of Germany's modern-day economic domination, by one of Germany's most distinguished intellectuals."
--Daily Mail

"A brilliant and succinct analysis of the political genius of Angela Merkel."
--Charles Moore, Sunday Telegraph

"A short but punchy book by the distinguished German sociologist."
--Prospect

"A welcome tonic to reactionary discourses on the ills of Brussels."
--Times Literary Supplement

"Democracy won't be real in Europe until that kind of law has to be proposed, debated, and voted on by all concerned. Beck has moved us a small step closer to this highly desirable consummation, and to a unified political will in Europe, by getting his readers accustomed to thinking of a 'European Germany' rather than a 'German Europe'."
--Los Angeles Review of Books

"Diagnoses Europe's troubles with a realism and clarity that suggests a long and arduous road ahead."
--Financial Times

"A thought-provoking essay on the European economic crisis, recommended to all interested in this topic."
--Journal of Global Faultlines

"A brilliant analysis of Europe's shifting landscape of power."
--Joschka Fischer, Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor of Germany, 1998-2005

"An immensely incisive and encouraging book. Not only does it present an eye-opening outlook on Europe's crisis, it also offers a credible solution."
--Daniel Cohn-Bendit, MEP and co-president of the Greens/Free European Alliance Group in the European Parliament

"Ulrich Beck's German Europe is one of those rare and brilliant political tracts that offers us a new language with which to understand the present crisis so that we can shape the future."
--Mary Kaldor, Professor of Global Governance, LSE