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The article reviews several books including "The Politics of the New Germany," by Simon Green, Dan Hough, Alister Miskimmon and Graham Timmins, "The Foundations of Ostpolitik: The Making of the Moscow Treaty between West Germany and the USSR," by Julia Von Dannenberg, and "Expertenkommissionen im politischen Prozess. Eine Bilanz zur rot-grünen Bundesregierung 1998-2005," by Sven T. Siefken.

The article reviews several books about German politics, including "Party Politics in Germany. A Comparative Politics Approach," Charles Lees, "The Politics of Constitutional Review in Germany," by Georg Vanberg and "Germany, Pacifism and Peace Enforcement," by Anja-Dalgaard Nielsen.

The article reviews the book "European Integration Theory," edited by Antje Wiener and Thomas Diez.

Reviews several books on politics. "Popular Choice and Managed Democracy: The Russian Elections of 1999 and 2000," by Timothy J. Colton & Michael McFaul; " Democracy After Communism," edited by Larry Diamond and Marc F. Plattner; "Women's Access to Political Power in Post-Communist Europe," edited by Richard E. Matland and Kathleen A. Montgomery; "The Russian Market Economy," by Pekka Sutela; "The Origins of Postcommunist Elites: From the Prague Spring to the Breakup of Czechoslovakia," by Gil Eyal; "Cinema of the Other Europe: The Industry and Artistry of East Central European Film," by Dina Iordanova.

European Political Thought 1815–1989. By Spencer M. Di Scala and Salvo Mastellone. Oxford and Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1998. £42.50 hb, £12.50 pb. Think Tanks Across Nations. Edited by Diane Stone, Andrew Denham and Mark Garnett. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998. £45 hb. Politikfinanzierung in Österreich, Ein Handbuch. By Hubert Sickinger. Thaur: Druck und Verlagshaus Thaur, 1997. Gesundheitspolitik. Der Staat in der Hand einzelner Interessengruppen? By Nils C. Bandelow. Opladen: Leske + Budrich, 1998. National Identity in Eastern Germany. Inner Unification or Continued Separation? By Andreas Staab. London: Praeger, 1998. £46.50 hb. Die PDS: Profil einer antidemokratischen Partei. By Patrick Moreau. Hanns Seidel Stiftung, München, 1998. Fighting for Partnership, Labor and Politics in Unified Germany. By Lowell Turner. Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 1998. £31.50 hb, £12.95 pb. Die verhandelnde Verwaltung. Eine empirische Untersuchung über den Vollzug des Immissionsschutzsrechts. By Nicolai Dose. Baden‐Baden: Nomos, 1997, DM 98. Parliament and the Media. A Study of Britain, Germany and France. By Ralph Negrine. London: Pinter, 1998. £27.50 hb, £11.99 pb. Modern Germany. An Encyclopaedia of History, People and Culture, 1871–1990. Edited by Dieter K. Bruse and Jürgen C. Doerr, 2 volumes, New York and London: Garland Publishing Inc., 1998. £175 hb. The German Greens: Paradox Between Movement and Party. Edited by Margit Mayer and John ELY. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1998. London: Temple University Press, 1998. £55.95 hb, £19.95 pb. Imperial Overstretch: Germany in Soviet Policy from Stalin to Gorbachev. By Hannes Adomeit. Baden‐Baden: Nomos, 1998. Aussenpolitik für die deutsche Einheit. By Werner Weidenfeld. Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags‐Anstalt, 1999. NATO, Britain, France and the FRG: Nuclear Strategies and Forces for Europe 1949–2000. By Beatrice Heuser. Basingstoke: MacMillan, 1997. £45 hb. DVU im Aufwärtstrend ‐ Gefahr für die Demokratie? Fakten, Analysen, Gegenstrategien. By Britta Obszerninks and Matthias Schmidt. Münster: Agenda‐Verlag 1998. DM25. Die doppelte Vereinigung. Vorgeschichte, Verlauf und Auswirkungen des Zusammenschlusses von Grünen und Bündnis ‘90. By Jürgen Hoffmann. Opladen: Leske + Budrich, 1998. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Germany in Transition. Special Issue of Daedalus. Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Edited by Stephen R. Graubard. Winter 1994, Vol.123, No.l, $10.95. Germany's New Position in Europe: Problems and Perspectives. Edited by Arnulf Baring. Oxford: Berg, 1994. £12.95 pb. Behind the Wall. The Inner Life of Communist Germany. By Hans‐Joachim Maaz (translated by Margot Bettauer Bembo). London/New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1995. £21.95 hb. Communism's Collapse, Democracy's Demise? The Cultural Context and Consequences of the East German Revolution. By Laurence H. McFalls. London: Macmillan, 1995. £35.00 hb. NATO's Eastern Dilemmas. By David G. Haglund, S. Neil Macfarlane and Joel J. Sokolsky. Boulder: Westview Press, 1994. £35.50 pb. Ausländer in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Ein Handbuch. By Zentrum Für Türkeistudien. Opladen: Leske und Budrich, 1994. Hayek's Social and Political Thought. By Roland Kley. Oxford, 1994. Preisstabilitätspolitik. By Andreas Busch. Opladen: Leske und Budrich, 1995. DM38.00 pb. Grundgesetz und Volksentscheid. By Otmar Jung. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1994. DM59.00 pb. Studies in GDR Culture and Society 11/12. The End of the GDR and the Problems of Integration. Selected Papers from the Sixteenth and Seventeenth New Hampshire Symposia on the German Democratic Republic. Edited by Margy Gerber and Roger Woods. New York/London: University Press of America, 1993. £33.95 hb. Koalitionsbildung in den deutschen Bundesländern: Theoretische Betrachtungen, Dokumentationen und Analyse der Koalitionsbildungen auf Länderebene seit 1949. By Uwe Jun. Opladen: Leske und Budrich, 1994. pb. Weber. Political Writings. Edited by P. Lassman and R. Speirs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. £10.95 pb, £27.95 hb. Non‐violent Struggle and the Revolution in East Germany. By Roland Bleiker. Cambridge, MA: The Albert Einstein Institution, 1993. $3.00 pb. The National Economies of Europe. Edited by D.A. Dyker. London and New York: Longman, 1992. pb. Newspaper German. A Vocabulary of Administrative and Commercial Idiom. By Colin Good. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1995. hb. Redefining Europe: New Patterns of Conflict and Cooperation. Edited by Hugh Miall. London: RIIA/Pinter, 1994. £14.99 pb. Wahlen und politische Einstellungen im vereinigten Deutschland. Empirische und methodologische Beiträge zur Sozialwissenschaft No. 13. Edited by Hans Rattinger, Oscar W. Gabriel and Wolfgang Jagodzinski. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1994. pb. Wie das Fernsehen Wahlen beeinflusst. Theoretische Modelle und empirische Analysen. By Hans Mathias Keppunger, Hans‐Bernd Brosius and Stefan Dahlem. Munich: Verlag Reinhard Fischer, 1994. DM39.00. Kanzlerkandidaten in den Medien. Eine Analyse des Wahljahres 1990. By Klaus Kindelmann. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1994. DM42.00. The Philosophy of the Austrian School. By Raimondo Cubeddu. London: Routledge, 1993. £37.50 hb. Zwischen Pazifismus und Verteidigung. Die Sicherheitspolitik der SPD. By Florian Gerster. Baden‐Baden: Nomos, 1994. DM38.OO. East German Dissidents and the Revolution of 1989: Social Movement in a Leninist Regime. By Christian Joppke. Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, 1995. £40.00 hb. Anerkannt als Minderheit. Vergangenheit und Zukunft der Deutschen in Polen. Edited by Hans Van Der Meulen. Baden‐Baden: Nomos, 1994. DM 68.00. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Zwischen Traum und Trauma ‐ Die Nation. Transatlantische Perspektiven zur Geschichte eines Problems. Edited by Claudia Mayer‐Iswandy. Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag, 1994. DM34.00 pb. Federalism‐in‐the‐Making. Contemporary Canadian and German Constitutionalism, National and Transnational. Edited by Edward Mcwhinney, Jerald Zaslove and Werner Wolf. Dordrecht/Boston/London: Kluwer, 1992. £48.00 hb. Im Dienste der Staatspartei Über Parteien und Organisationen der DDR. By Rüdiger Henkel. BadenBaden: Nomos, 1994. DM78.00 pb. Soziale Sicherung im Sozialstaat Österreich. Entwicklung ‐ Herausforderungen — Strukturen. By Emmerich Tälos and Karl Wörister. Baden‐Baden: Nomos, 1994. DM78.00 pb. The German Economy. By Eric Owen Smith. London: Routledge, 1994. £70.00 hb, £19.99 pb. Adenauer to Kohl: The Development of the German Chancellorship. Edited by Stephen Padgett. London: Hurst, 1994. £9.95 pb. The Economics of German Unification. Edited by A. Ghanie Ghaussy and Wolf Schafer. London: Routledge, 1993. £40.00 hb. Unemployment in Europe. Edited by J. Michie and J. Grieve Smith. London: Academic Press, 1994, £14.95 pb. Coal, Steel, and the Rebirth of Europe, 1945–1955. By John Gillingham. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. £30.00 hb. Die Europäische Union. Ein Kompendium aus deutscher Sicht. Edited by Rudolf Strohmeier. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1994. pb. Wurzeln der Umweltbewegung: Die ‘Gesellschaft für Natur und Umwelt’ (GNU) im Kulturbund der DDR. By Hermann Behrens, Ulrike Benkert, Jürgen Hopfmann and Uwe Maechler. Marburg: BdWi‐Verlag, 1993. DM29.80 pb. Ever Closer Union? An Introduction to the European Community. By Desmond Dinan. London: Macmillan. 1994. £12.99 pb. The German Tradition of Organized Capitalism: Self‐Government in the Coal Industry. By Martin F. Parnell. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1994. £35 hb. Western European Communists and the Collapse of Communism. Edited by David S. Bell. Berg: Oxford, 1993. £29.95 hb. Rechtsextremismus. Einführung und Forschungsbilanz. Edited by Wolfgang Kowalsky and Wolfgang Schroeder. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag 1994. DM54.00. Social and Economic Modernisation in Eastern Germany from Honecker to Kohl. By Mike Dennis. London: Pinter, 1993. £37.00 hb. Die Chance genutzt? Die Politik zur Einheit Deutschlands. By Karl‐Rudolf Korte. Frankfurt/New York: Campus Verlag, 1994. DM29.80 pb. Europäische und Internationale Wirtschaftsordnung aus der Sicht der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Edited by Wolfgang Graf Vitzthum. Baden‐Baden: Nomos, 1994. DM98.00 hb. New German Cinema. A History. By Thomas Elsaesser, New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1994. pb. Handwörterbuch des politischen Systems der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Edited by Uwe Andersen and Wichard Woyke. Opladen: Leske und Budrich, 1993. James B. Conant: Harvard to Hiroshima and the Making of the Nuclear Age. By James G. Hershberg. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. $35.00. Der überforderte Staat. By Thomas Ellwein and Joachim Jens Hesse. Baden‐Baden: Nomos, 1994. DM78.00 hb. Staatsaufgaben. Edited by Dieter Grimm assisted by Evelyn Hagenah. Baden‐Baden: Nomos, 1994, DM 178.00 hb. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Die SPD und die Nation: vier sozialdemokratische Generationen zwischen nationaler Selbstbestimmung und Zweistaatlichkeit. By TILMAN FICHTER. Berlin, Frankfurt/Main: Ullstein, 1993. DM36. The German Greens. Challenging the Consensus. By THOMAS SCHARF. Oxford and Providence, USA: Berg, 1994. £14.95 pb. Gemischte Gefühle. Einheitsalltag in Mecklenburg‐Vorpommern. Edited by RAINER BUSCH. Bonn: Dietz, 1993. DM19.80 pb. East‐West German Relations and the Fall of the GDR. By ERNEST D. PLOCK. Boulder and Oxford: Westview Press, 1993. £29.50 pb. Germany. The Tides of Power. By MICHAEL BALFOUR. London: Routledge, 1992. £12.99. pb. Storenfried: DDR‐Opposition 1986–1989. Mit Texten aus den Umweltblattern. By WOLFGANG RUDDENKLAU. 2nd Edition. Berlin: BasisDruck, 1992. DM24.80 pb. Social Democracy in a Post‐Communist Europe. Edited by MICHAEL WALLER, BRUNO COPPIETERS and KRIS DESCHOUWER. Ilford: Frank Cass, 1994. £30.00 hb. Politics in Western Europe: An Introduction to the Politics of the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden and the European Community. By M. DONALD HANCOCK, DAVID P. CONRADT, B. GUY PETERS, WILLIAM SAFRAN, and RALPH ZARISKI. London: Macmillan, 1993. £14.99 pb. German Unification and EC Integration. German and British Perspectives. By BARBARA LIPPERT and ROSALIND STEVENS‐STROHMANN. London: Pinter/Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1993. £22.50 hb, £9.95 pb. Freedom with Responsibility. The Social Market Economy in Germany 1918–1963. By A. J. NICHOLLS. Oxford: OUP, 1994. £40.00 hb. The Politics of European Integration in the Twentieth Century. By DAVID ARTER. Aldershot: Dartmouth, 1993. £15.00 pb. Comparative Federalism and Federation: Competing Traditions and Future Directions. Edited by MICHAEL BURGESS and ALAIN‐G. GAGNON. Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1993. £11.95 pb. Wotan, My Enemy. By LEO ABSE. London: Robson Books, 1994. £18.95 hb. The Collapse of East German Communism: The Year the Wall Came Down. 1989. By DAVID M. KEITHLY. Westpost and London: Praeger. 1992. £42.50 hb. Parties and Party Systems in the New Germany. Edited by STEPHEN PADGETT. Aldershot: Dartmouth, 1993. £35.00 hb. Arbeitslosigkeit — ein Dauerproblem im vereinten Deutschland? Dimensionen, Ursachen, Strategien. By HORST FRIEDRICH and MICHAEL WIEDERMEYER. Opladen: Leske und Budrich, 1992. The German Left: Red, Green and Beyond, BY ANDREI S. MARKOVITS and PHILIP S. GORSKI: Cambridge: Polity Press, 1993. The German Polity. Fifth Edition. By DAVID P. CONRADT, New York and London: Longman, 1993. £16.99 pb. Macht und Ohnmacht der Verbdnde. Das Beispiel des Bundesverbandes der Deutschen Industrie e. V. aus empirisch‐analytischer Sicht. By SIEGFRIED MANN. Baden‐Baden: Nomos. DM78 pb. Datenhandbuch zur Geschichte des Deutschen Bundestages 1983 bis 1991. By PETER SCHINDLER. Baden‐Baden: Nomos, 1994. DM29.80 pb. Research and Technology in the Former German Democratic Republic. By RAYMOND BENTLEY. Oxford: Westview Press, 1992. pb. The European Rescue of the Nation‐State. By ALAN S. MILWARD with GEORGE BRENNAN and FEDERICO ROMERO. London: Routledge, 1992. £40.00 hb. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Reviews the book "The Party that Came Out of the Cold War: The Party of Democratic Socialism in United Germany," by Franz Oswald.

Reviews the book 'Culture and Inflation in Weimar Germany,' by Bernd Widdig.

Reviews the book `German Unification and the Union of Europe: The Domestic Politics of Integration Policy,' by J. Anderson.

Reviews the book `Anatomy of a Dictatorship: Inside the GDR, 1949-1989,' by Mary Fulbrook.

Reviews the book `Courageous Hearts: Women and the Anti-Hitler Plot of 1944,' by Dorothee von Meding.

Reviews the book `Die Chance genutzt? Die Politik zur Einheit Deutschlands,' by ,' by Karl-Rudolf Korte.