The Oxford Handbook of German Politics

Klaus Larres is the Richard M Krasno Distinguished Professor of History and International Affairs at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Previously he held professorships at Johns Hopkins University/SAIS, Yale, London University and Queen's University Belfast in the UK, and served as Counselor and Senior Foreign Policy Adviser at the German embassy in Beijing, China. Holger Moroff is visiting professor of strategic studies at the National Defense University and an adjunct professor of political science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Previously he also taught international and comparative politics at Friedrich Schiller University Jena and at Leibniz University Hannover. His research focuses on security theories, comparative political corruption, and the internationalization of anti-corruption regimes. Ruth Wittlinger (1961-2020) was a Professor in the School of Government and International Affairs at Durham University, UK, and the Lady Davis Visiting Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She published extensively on memory and identity in post-unification Germany and Europe.

Klaus Larres, Holger Moroff, and Ruth Wittlinger: Introduction
PART I: LEADING SCHOLARS AND THEIR INTERPRETATIONS OF GERMAN HISTORY FROM WORLD WAR II TO THE PRESENT
1: Konrad H. Jarausch: Encounters with Modernity: The German Search for Alternatives in the Twentieth Century
2: Heinrich August Winkler: From Post-National Democracy to Post-Classical Nation-State
3: Ute Frevert: Emotional Styles in Postwar German Politics
4: Klaus von Beyme: The Development of Germany after 1945
PART II: GERMANY DURING THE COLD WAR ERA
5: Klaus Larres: Atlantic Integration and "Ever Closer Union": West Germany, the U.S., and European Unity during the Cold War
6: Peter Ruggenthaler: Germany and the Soviet Union during the Cold War Era
7: Gert-Joachim Glaeßner: The Governmental System and Political History of the GDR
8: Larissa R. Stiglich: The End of the Cold War and the Process of German Unification
PART III: GERMANY SINCE 1990
Political Institutions and Constitutional Design
9: Ray Hebestreit and Karl-Rudolf Korte: The Executive: The German Government and Civil Service
10: Suzanne S. Schüttemeyer and Sven T. Siefken: The German Bundestag: The Core Institution in a Parliamentary Democracy
11: Arthur Benz: The Federal System and the Länder
12: Russell A. Miller: The German Legal System and Courts
13: David F. Patton: The 'Old Five': The Bonn Parties in the Berlin Republic
14: Hartwig Pautz: Germany's Political Parties: The Newcomers
Political Economy and Policy Making
15: Christian Schweiger: The German Economic Model: from Germany's Social Market Economy to Neoliberalism?
16: Andreas Busch: Germany's Trading System and Export Driven Economy
17: Janine Jacob: Germany's Banking and Financial System
18: Peter Starke: The German Welfare State
19: Dietrich Thränhardt: The Immigration System and the Rule of Law
20: Carl Lankowski: The Merkel Era: Environmental Politics and the 'Energiewende' (energy transition)
Culture and Society
21: Reinhold Sackmann: Demographics and Generational Transition and Politics
22: Detlef Pollack and Olaf Müller: Religion and the Churches
23: Joseph Cronin: Jewish Life and Politics in Postwar Germany
24: Priscilla Layne: Identity and Diversity in Post-Unification Germany
25: Michael Braun: German Literature, Theatre and Film since 1990
26: Marion Deshmukh: German Art After 1990
PART IV: GERMANY IN GLOBAL AFFAIRS
27: Holger Moroff: German Foreign Policy: Roots, Reasonings, and Repercussions
28: Carine Germond: Franco-German Relations and the European Integration Process since 1990
29: Sebastian Harnisch: Germany and EU Foreign Policy
30: Patricia Daehnhardt: Germany in the EU: An Assertive Status Quo Power?
Germany and the World Beyond Europe
31: James Sperling: German Multilateralism after the Cold War
32: Markus Kaim: Germany and NATO
33: Klaus Schwabe: German-American Relations from 1945 to the Present
34: Stephen F. Szabo: Three Chancellors and Russia: German-Russian Relations since 1990
35: Volker Stanzel: A Quarter Century of German Relations with the Indo-Pacific
PART V: LOOKING BACKWARD AND FORWARD
36: Stefan Kornelius: Angela Merkel in Power: How Influential was the Merkel Era?
37: Jackson Janes: Leaders in Partnership: Germany in the Biden Era