The Routledge Handbook of German Politics & Culture (Routledge Handbooks)
Language: English
Pages: 514
ISBN: 0415686865
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The Routledge Handbook of German Politics and Culture offers a wide-ranging and authoritative account of Germany in the 21st century. It gathers the expertise of internationally leading scholars of German culture, politics, and society to explore and explain
- historical pathways to contemporary Germany
- the current ‘Berlin Republic’
- society and diversity
- Germany and Europe
- Germany and the world.
This is an essential resource for students, researchers, and all those looking to understand contemporary German politics and culture.
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even greater salience for transition democracies, where citizens are likely to experience financial hardships and social dislocation while the new regime is consolidated (Berg and Veenhoven 2010: 187). Itself a transition democracy after World War II, the FRG has always been keenly aware of the potential fragility of democratic governance. In 1990 it faced the unique challenge of cementing social cohesion in a united Germany that now incorporated citizens of the former GDR. In the early 1990s
on UNSC Resolution 1973 on Libya as representative of a new German policy line: the government has since agreed to send a small mission to Turkey in 2013 to strengthen Turkey’s air defences against Syria, and at the time of writing is considering participation in an EU mission to support the government of Mali against an Islamist insurgency in the north of the country. Yet scepticism towards the use of military force in the pursuit of non-vital foreign policy objectives has again grown
246 Sikorski, Radosław 401–2 Sinai Peninsula 412 Sinatra Doctrine 429 Singer, Bryan 305 single currency 78–9, 158, 349–50, 354, 362, 364, 431; see also euro, European monetary union Single European Act 78–9 single parents 138, 142 single resolution mechanism (SRM) 366, 367 Sinn, Hans-Werner 405n5 Sinti and Roma 36, 50, 286 Six-Day War 412, 420 Slovakia 398 ‘SlutWalk’ 254 Smith, Frederick 335 social class 195, 199, 251–2, 260, 295 Social Democratic Party (SPD) 14, 42, 90–2, 94,
statistics are available. The continued lack of interest in naturalisation is also perplexing given the long residency of much of Germany’s foreign population: in 2011, the average length of residence of Germany’s foreigners was 19 years, and nearly three quarters had lived in Germany for eight years or more, thus fulfilling the minimum residence requirement for naturalisation (Statistisches Bundesamt 2011: table 9). There are several explanations for the sustained lack of interest in