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Subject(s)

• Christlich-Demokratische Union Deutschlands (Germany : West) [Browse]
• Christlich-Soziale Union [Browse]
• North Atlantic Treaty Organization [Browse]
• Germany (West)—History [Browse]
• Germany (West)—Politics and government [Browse]
• Germany (West)—Foreign relations [Browse]
• Europe—History—1945- [Browse]

Series

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Summary note

'Adenauer's Heirs' is a history of the Federal Republic of Germany from the 1960s to the 1990s that focuses on the role of the Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) in shaping West Germany's place in a rapidly changing domestic and international environment. It reveals how debates within the CDU/CSU helped shape West Germany's role in both NATO and the emerging European Union, culminating in reunification, and considers the legacy of those historical developments for Germany's current and future role in the world.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Target audience

Specialized.

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Contents

• Cover
• Adenauer's Heirs : The CDU/CSU from Détente to Reunification
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Christian Democracy in Postwar Germany from Dominance to Crisis
• Politics in a New Key, and the CDU/CSU from a New Perspective
• 1: Experiments in Westpolitik Franz Josef Strauß, the CDU/CSU, and Transatlantic Relations in the 1960s
• The Appeal and the Limits of German Gaullism
• Franz Josef Strauß and West German Politics
• The "New Atlantic Community"
• Nationalism and the "Europeanization of the German Question"
• Strauß Reinvented, and the CDU/CSU as Well?
• Opportunity and Its Limits in the Grand Coalition
• Challenges and Responses, 1968-1969
• Conclusion: The Limits of Experimentation
• 2: NATO's Nuclear Family The CDU/CSU and the Politics of Nuclear Weapons, 1963-1974
• Multilateral Ambivalence
• MLF in West German Politics
• NPT and the End of German Nuclear Dreams
• NPT and the CDU/CSU in the Grand Coalition
• Conclusion: The End of Nuclear Dreams
• 3: The Last Prussians? The CDU/CSU and Ostpolitik, 1969-1973
• A Foreign Policy Whirlwind
• Continuity, Realism, and First Principles
• Ostpolitik and European Integration
• Playing the American Card . . . and Losing
• The Reckoning: Ratification and the Politics of Confidence
• Conclusion: The Election of 1972 and the End of Illusions
• 4: Party Diplomacy CDU and CSU at Home and Abroad, 1973-1980
• Changing of the Guard- Again
• From Karlsruhe to Helsinki
• Building the Black International
• Divorce or Reconciliation? The 1976 Election and the Trauma of Kreuth
• Conclusion: Strauß's Last Stand?
• 5: From Wende to Wende The CDU/CSU in Power, 1982-1990
• Returning to Power in Fits and Starts
• Kohl's Atlantic-European Synthesis
• Germany, the West, and the Limits of Historical Revision.
• Continuity Before Change in Ostpolitik
• 1989: An Inauspicious Start
• Managing the Wende
• Conclusion: Change, Chance, and Continuity
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Chapter 1
• Chapter 2
• Chapter 3
• Chapter 4
• Chapter 5
• Chapter 6
• Bibliography
• Archival Collections
• Archiv für Christlich-Demokratische Politik der Konrad Adenauer Stiftung [ACDP]
• Archiv für Christlich-Soziale Politik der Hanns Seidel Stiftung [ACSP]
• Bundesarchiv Koblenz [BAK]
• Stiftung Bundeskanzler-Adenauer-Haus [StBKAH], Rhöndorf
• Lyndon B. Johnson Library, Austin [LBJL]
• Nixon Presidential Materials [NPM]
• Published Collections
• Memoirs
• Books
• Articles and Papers
• Newspapers and Magazines
• Index.

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ISBN

• 0-19-784134-1
• 0-19-784133-3
• 0-19-937817-7
• 9780197841334

OCLC

• 1550246115
• 1567471059

Doi

10.1093/9780199378173.001.0001

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