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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Emmanuel Comte (University of California Berkeley, USA) , Fernando GuiraoPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.671kg ISBN: 9781032792590ISBN 10: 1032792590 Pages: 262 Publication Date: 08 October 2024 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print ![]() This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: Pax Germanica through the ages 1. The European Union of the German nation 2. The Habsburg peace and its lessons for today’s Europe 3. Economics and power in German national identity Part 2: The rise of German hegemony in European integration 4. The sources and effects of German hegemony on European integration 5. Germany and France – The elusiveness of a joint hegemony 6. How Helmut Schmidt and Helmut Kohl made Europe Testimony: German pre-eminence in Europe Part 3: The constraints and limitations of German hegemony 7. Spectres of German dominance: Anxieties aroused and averted since 1950 8. Solving the German question through European integration 9. European integration history revisited around German leadership in the European Monetary System Part 4: The difficulties of German hegemony in a new century 10. The failure of German hegemony in European energy policy 11. German hegemony in the European Union? Evaluating the ‘crisis years’ from 2010 12. Hegemony and Germany – An odd couple ConclusionReviews""Finally a book that answers Europe's most vexing question: how to fit Germany onto the map without endangering the continent's peace and prosperity. The authors, a superb mix of specialists across fields, treat politics as inseparable from economics and culture. What the wartime alliance ultimately enabled was not the destruction of German hegemony but its transformation: now enacted not by German force, but through European consensus."" John Connelly, University of California, Berkeley, USA “In … Discussing Pax Germanica: The Rise and Limits of German Hegemony in European Integration, Herman Van Rompuy ... writes matter-of-factly, ‘In the years of my mandate, there was only one time when the position of the European Council did not correspond to the position of Germany…’ So which way Germany goes matters more to Europe than the future course of any other European country.” Timothy Garton Ash, University of Oxford, UK, in The New York Review of Books, May 23, 2024 """Finally a book that answers Europe's most vexing question: how to fit Germany onto the map without endangering the continent's peace and prosperity. The authors, a superb mix of specialists across fields, treat politics as inseparable from economics and culture. What the wartime alliance ultimately enabled was not the destruction of German hegemony but its transformation: now enacted not by German force, but through European consensus."" John Connelly, University of California, Berkeley, USA “In … Discussing Pax Germanica: The Rise and Limits of German Hegemony in European Integration, Herman Van Rompuy ... writes matter-of-factly, ‘In the years of my mandate, there was only one time when the position of the European Council did not correspond to the position of Germany…’ So which way Germany goes matters more to Europe than the future course of any other European country.” Timothy Garton Ash, University of Oxford, UK, in The New York Review of Books, May 23, 2024" """Finally a book that answers Europe's most vexing question: how to fit Germany onto the map without endangering the continent's peace and prosperity. The authors, a superb mix of specialists across fields, treat politics as inseparable from economics and culture. What the wartime alliance ultimately enabled was not the destruction of German hegemony but its transformation: now enacted not by German force, but through European consensus."" Professor John Connelly, University of California, Berkeley, USA “In … Discussing Pax Germanica: The Rise and Limits of German Hegemony in European Integration, Herman Van Rompuy ... writes matter-of-factly, ‘In the years of my mandate, there was only one time when the position of the European Council did not correspond to the position of Germany…’ So which way Germany goes matters more to Europe than the future course of any other European country.” Timothy Garton Ash, author of ""Big Germany, What Now?"" in The New York Review of Books, May 23, 2024" Author InformationEmmanuel Comte is a senior research fellow of the European Programme at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy in Athens (ELIAMEP) and a professorial lecturer at the Vienna School of International Studies. He is the author of The History of the European Migration Regime (2018). Fernando Guirao is Jean Monnet History Professor at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona and deputy director of the Barcelona Center for European Studies (BACES). His most recent book, The European Rescue of the Franco Regime, 1950–1975 (2021) has merited the 2021 Joan Sardà prize. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |