Following the defeat of the Third Reich in 1945, Germany has experienced recurring turmoil and reinvention. In this book Michael Gehler explores the political path Germany has taken since the Yalta Co
For the first time, this book reveals the actual roles of the Christian Democratic (CD) parties in postwar Europe from a pan-European perspective.It shows how Christian Democratic parties became the d
Contributors to this volume use newly available sources to challenge the widely held assumption that European integration developed in the 1980s. They demonstrate how various networks influenced const
This book examines the changing nature of neutrality from the Cold War to present day. Contributors argue that, in contrast to traditional conceptions of neutrality as disengagement, neutrality in the
