Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures and tables -- Figures -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1 A new Germany in Europe? -- Germany in Europe: a framework of analysis -- West Germany (1949-89) -- The West German model -- The West German model in Europe -- Unification and union: interests, institutions, and ideas -- Case selection -- 2 Unification and "Germany in Europe'' -- Formal unification, November 1989 to October 1990 -- The view from the West -- The politics of unification: domestic imperatives -- The diplomacy of unification: European parameters -- After formal unification, 1990-96 -- Domestic debates and policies -- European debates and policies -- Economic and monetary union -- Budgeting and finance -- Enlargement -- Interests, institutions, ideas, and the unification process -- 3 Continuity in trade and internal market -- Trade policy -- Trade and the unification settlement, 1989-90 -- Trade policy after unification, 1990-95 -- General trade policy -- Eastern trade policy -- Internal market policy -- Internal market policy and the unification settlement, 1989-90 -- Internal market policy after unification, 1990-95 -- Conclusion -- 4 Mixed outcomes in energy and environment -- Environmental policy -- Environmental policy and the unification settlement, 1989-90 -- Environmental policy after unification, 1990-95 -- Energy policy -- Energy policy and the unification settlement, 1989-90 -- Energy policy after unification, 1990-95 -- Conclusions -- 5 Change in competition policy -- Pre-unification competition policy -- Competition policy and the unification settlement, 1989-90 -- Competition policy after unification: continuity in theory -- Competition policy after unification: change in practice -- The domestic politics of privatization, 1990-94.

Privatization and the European Community, 1990-94 -- Case studies -- Shipbuilding -- Steel -- Post-1994 privatization and the EU: mounting controversy -- Conclusions -- 6 Change in structural funds and the CAP -- Structural funds -- Structural funds and the unification settlement, 1989-90 -- Structural funds after unification, 1990-95 -- Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) -- CAP and the unification settlement, 1989-90 -- CAP after unification, 1990-96 -- Conclusions -- 7 A new Germany in Europe -- The politics of continuity: constitutive outcomes -- The politics of continuity and change: regulative outcomes -- Explaining policy outcomes: the absence of politicization -- Explaining policy outcomes: western Germany as a locus of conflict -- Explaining policy outcomes: eastern Germany as a locus of conflict -- Trade Policy -- State aid, agriculture, and structural funds -- Interests, institutions, and ideas: a reprise -- United Germany in Europe -- Bibliography -- Index.

This book explores the effects of Germany's unification in 1990 on its policies toward the European Union.

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