German Unification: Process and Outcomes Book

	Preface
	Introduction: Models of Unification	1
Pt. 1	Background and Impetus
1	The Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe and the GDR: Evolution, Revolution, and Diffusion	17
2	West German Policy Toward East Germany: A Motor of Unification?	35
Pt. 2	Process and Outcomes
3	Delegitimation of the Old Regime: Reforming and Transforming Ideas in the Last Years of the GDR	55
4	Steps Toward Union: The Collapse of the GDR and the Unification of Germany	73
5	Exiting the GDR: Political Movements and Parties Between Democratization and Westernization	93
6	Parties and Problems of Governance During Unification	139
7	An Unwelcome Enlargement? The European Community and German Unification	163
Pt. 3	Consequences and Problematics
8	An Impossible Dream? Privatizing Collective Property in Eastern Germany	199
9	Social Policy at a Crossroads	223
10	Economic and Political Performance: Patterns and Prospects	245
11	German Security Policy in Post-Yalta Europe	261
12	Germany in Transition: The Challenge of Coping with Unification	285
	Conclusion: Beyond Unification	313
	Appendix 1: Chronology of German Unification	325
	Appendix 2: A Ten-Point Program for Overcoming the Division of Germany and Europe	329
	Appendix 3: Treaty on Establishing a Monetary, Economic, and Social Union	339
	Appendix 4: Unification Treaty	353
	Appendix 5: German Elections, 1949-1993	371
	Select Bibliography	375
	About the Editors and Contributors	381
	About the Book	384
	Index	385