The Paradox of German Power
Hans Kundnani, "The Paradox of German Power"
English | ISBN: 0190245506 | 2015 | 156 pages | EPUB | 228 KB
English | ISBN: 0190245506 | 2015 | 156 pages | EPUB | 228 KB
Since the Euro crisis began, Germany has emerged as Europe's dominant power. During the last three years, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been compared with Bismarck and even Hitler in the European media. And yet few can deny that Germany today is very different from the stereotype of
nineteenth- and twentieth-century history. After nearly seventy years of struggling with the Nazi past, Germans think that they more than anyone have learned its lessons. Above all, what the new Germany thinks it stands for is peace. Germany is unique in this combination of economic assertiveness
and military abstinence. So what does it mean to have a "German Europe" in the twenty-first century?
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