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The article reviews several books including "Georgia: Pawn in the New Great Game," by Per Gahrton, "Changing European Employment and Welfare Regimes: The Influence of the Open Methods of Coordination on National Reforms," edited by Martin Heidenreich and Jonathan Zeitlin, and "Immigrants, Literature and National Integration," by Chantal Lacroix.

Reviews several books on global politics. `Doing the Dirty Work? The Global Politics of Domestic Labour,' by Bridget Anderson; `Propaganda and the Public Mind: Conversations with Noam Chomsky,' by David Barsmian and Noam Chomsky; `Sozialraum Europa: Okonomische und politische Transformationsprozesse in Ost und West,' by Benjamin Benz, Jurgen Boeckh and Ernst-Ulrich, Huster.

The Neo‐Nazis and German Unification. By RAND C. LEWIS, Westport: Praeger Publishers, 1996. Die Stalinisierung der SED. Zum Verlust von Freiräumen und sozialdemokratischer Identität in den Vorständen 1946–1949. By HAROLD HURWITZ. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1997. Video Review: My Second Life. By SIMONE SHOEMAKER, 1996. Die deutsche Sozialdemokratie 1989/90. SDP und SPD im Einigungsprozeβ. By PETRA SCHUH and BIANCA M. VON DER WEIDEN. Munich: Forschungsgruppe Deutschland am Centrum für angewandte Politikforschung, 1997. DM 39.80. Hannah Arendt and the Jewish Question. By RICHARD J. BERNSTEIN. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1996. £45 hb, £13.95 pb. The House on Garibaldi Street. By ISSER HAREL. Introduction by SHLOMO SHPIRO. London and Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 1997. £30 hb, £14.95 pb. The Common Roots of Europe. By BRONISLAW GEREMEK. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1996. £39.50 hb. Auftrag: Die planmäβige ideologische Umgestaltung der Universitäten. Staatliche Hochschulpolitik im Land Mecklenburg‐Vorpommem 1945–1950. By MARKUS SEILS. Schwerin: Der Landesbeauftragte fur Mecklenburg‐Vorpommern für die Unterlagen des Staatssicherheitsdienstes der ehemaligen DDR, 1996. Arroganz der Macht. Herrschaftsgeschichte von KPD und SED in Mecklenburg und Vorpommern 1945–1952. By KLAUS SCHWABE. Schwerin: cw Verlagsgruppe, 1997. A Berlin Republic: Writings on Germany. By JÜRGEN HABERMAS. Translated by STEVEN RENDELL. Introduction by UWE HOHENDAHL. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1998. £39.50 hb, £11.95 pb. The German Currency Union of 1990: A Critical Assessment. Edited by STEPHEN FRO WEN and JENS HÖLSCHER. London and New York: Macmillan, 1997. £45 hb. Antisemitism and Xenophobia in Germany after Unification. Edited by HERMANN KURTHEN, WERNER BERGMANN and RAINER ERB. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. $22.95 pb. ’Weder anglophil noch anglophob’ Großbritannien im politischen Denken Konrad Adenauers. By BERND LEUPOLD. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1997. £40 hb. Violence and Civilisation. By JONATHAN FLETCHER. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1997. £45 hb, £12.95 pb. After Unity. Reconfiguring German Identities. Edited by KONRAD H. JARAUSCH, Providence, RI, and Oxford: Berghahn, 1997. £35 hb, £11.95 pb. Soziale Bewegungen auf dem Weg zur Institutionalisierung. Zum Strukturwandel ‘alternativer’ Gruppen in beiden Teilen Deutschlands. By DIETER RUCHT, BARBARA BLATTERT and DIETER RINK. Frankfurt and New York: Campus, 1997. 78 DM. Headquarters Germany ‐ Die USA‐Geheimdienste in Deutschland. By KLAUS EICHNER and ANDREAS DOBBERT. Berlin: edition ost, 1997. DM 24.95. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Politics of Bavaria ‐ An Exception to the Rule. By Peter James. Aldershot: Avebury, 1995. £38.50 hb. The European Challenges Post‐1992. Shaping Factors, Shaping Actors. Edited by Alexis Jacquemin and David Wright. Aldershot and Vermont: Edward Elgar, 1993. Entscheidung ohne Alternativen?: Die Wirtschafts‐, Finanz‐ und Sozialpolitik im deutschen Vereinigungsprozeß 1989/90. By Jurgen Gros. Mainz: Schriftenreihe der Forschungsgruppe Deutschland, 1994. Between Hope and Fear. Everyday Life in Post‐Unification East Germany: A Case Study of Leipzig. Edited by E. Kolinsky. Keele: Keele University Press, 1995. The New Germans. By Giles Radice. London: Michael Joseph, 1995. The Wall in my Backyard: East German Women in Transition. Edited by Dinah Dodds and Pam Allen‐Thompson. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1994. The Federal Republic of Germany at Forty‐Five. Union without Unity. Edited by Peter H. Merkl. Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, 1995. Entwicklungsmodell Westdeutschland. Aspekte der Akkumulation in der Geldwirtschaft. By Jens Hölscher. Berlin: Duncker & Humbolt 1994. The Green Agenda: Environmental Politics and Policy in Germany. Edited by Ingolfur Blühdorn, Frank Krause and Thomas Scharf. Keele, Keele University Press, 1995. German Cultural Studies. Edited by Rob Burns. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. Die aktive Beteiligung Deutschlands an militärischen Aktionen zur Verwirklichung Kollektiver Sicherheit. By Alexander Siedschlag. Peter Lang: Frankfurt am Main, 1995. From Yalta to the Iron Curtain: The Great Powers and the Origins of the Cold War. By Pierre De Senarclens. Translated from the French by Amanda Pingree. Oxford/Washington DC: Berg, 1995. Nationalsozialismus aus heutiger Perspektive. Tel Aviver Jahrbuch fur deutsche Geschichte, Band XXIII. Edited by Dan Diner and Frank Stem, Tel Aviv: University of Tel Aviv/Bleicher Verlag, 1994. WeltTrends. Internationale Politik und vergle chende Studien. Berlin: GSFP‐Gesellschaft fur Sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung und Publizistik, 1993–1995. 80DM annual subscription. Parties, Policies and Democracy. By Hans‐Dieter Klingemann, Richard I. Hofferbert and Ian Budge. Boulder, San Francisco and Oxford: Westview Press, 1994. Wörterbuch zur Politik. By Manfred G. Schmidt. Stuttgart: Alfred Kröner Verlag, 1995. Öffentlichkeitsarbeit der Parlamente: Politikvermittlung zwischen Public Relations and Parlamentsdidaktik. Edited by Ulrich Sarcinelli. Baden‐Baden: Nomos, 1994. European Monetary Upheavals. Edited by David Cobham. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1994. Friedensgutachten 1995. Edited by Reinhard Mutz, Bruno Schoch, Friedhelm Solms. Munster: Institut fur Friedensforschung und Sicherheitspolitik und der Universitat Hamburg, Hessische Stiftung Friedens‐ und Konfliktforschung, Forschungsstatte der Evangelischen Studiengemeinschaft, 1995. [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]

Der Zusammenbruch der DDR. Edited by Hans Joas and Martin Kohl. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1993. Repräsentative Demokratie und Politische Partizipation. Edited by Gerhard Hirscher. Munich: Hanns‐Seidel‐Stiftung e.V., 1993. pb. Germany from Partition to Reunification. By Henry Ashby Turner Jr. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1992. £25 hb, £7.50 pb. Der Deutsche Bundestag. Funktionen, Willensbildung, Reformansätze. By Wolfgang Ismayr. Opladen: Leske & Budrich, 1992. Belonging in the Two Berlins. Kin, State, Nation. By John Borneman. Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. £40 hb, £14.95 pb. Forever in the Shadow of Hitler? The Dispute about the Germans’ Understanding of History, Original Documents of the Historikerstreit, the Controversy Concerning the Singularity of the Holocaust. English translation from the German by James Knowlton and Truett Cates. New Jersey: Humanities Press, 1993. £35 hb, £12.95 pb. The Two Germanies 1945–1990. Problems of Interpretation. By Mary Fulbrook. Basingstoke/London: Macmillan, 1992. Reformversuche und Reformblockaden im Deutschen Gesundheitswesen. By Bernd Rosewitz and Douglas Webber. Frankfurt/New York: Campus Verlag, 1990. BRD ade! Vierzig Jahre in Rück‐Ansichten. Edited by Otthein Rammstedt and Gert Schmidt. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1992. DM26 pb. Identity, Migration and the New Security Agenda in Europe. By Ole Waever, Barry Buzan, Morten Kelstrup and Pierre Lemaitre. Pinter Publishers: London, 1993. £37.50 hb, £12.99 pb. Leserbriefe in Tageszeitungen der DDR: Zur ‘Massenverbundenheit’ der Presse 1949–1989. By Ellen Bos. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1992. Die Massenmedien im Wahlkampf. Untersuchungen im Wahljahr 1990. Edited by Christina Holtz‐Bacha and Lynda Lee Kaid. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1993. DM42. Medienwirkung und ihre Ursachen. Wie wichtig sind Zeitungsberichte und Leserinteressen? By Klaus Schönbach and Wolfgang Eichhorn. Konstanz: Universitäts‐Verlag Konstanz, 1992. DM38. Die Macht der Banken. Die personellen Verflechtungen der Commerzbank, der Deutschen Bank und der Dresdner Bank mil Unternehmen. By Hermannus Pfeiffer. Frankfurt am Main , New York: Campus Verlag, 1993. DM 68. Political Culture in Germany. Edited by Dirk Berg‐Schlosser and Ralf Rytlewski. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1993. £47.50 hb. In From the Cold. Germany. Russia and the Future of Europe. Edited by Vladimir Baranovsky and Hans‐Joachim Spanger. Boulder: Westview Press, 1992. £38.95 hb. Die Verfassungsdiskussion im Jahr der Deutschen Einheit. Analysen, Hingergründe, Fakten. Edited by Bernd Guggenberger and Tine Stein. München, Wien: Carl Hanser Verlag, 1991. Bildungspolitik in Deutschland 1945–1990. Ein historisch‐vergleichender Quellenband. Edited by Oskar Anweiler, Hans‐Jürgen Fuchs, Martina Dorner and Eberhard Petermann. Opladen: Leske & Budrich, 1992. The Politics of German Regulation. Edited by Kenneth Dyson. Aldershot: Dartmouth & The Association for the Study of German Politics, 1992. £35 hb. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Asylpolitik in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Entwicklung und Alternativen. By Ursula Münch. Opladen: Leske und Budrich, 1993. DM 24,80 pb. The Internationalisation of the German Political Economy: Evolution of a Hegemonic Project. Edited by William D. Graf. London: Macmillan and New York: St Martin's Press, 1992. £45 hb. Handeln für Deutschland. Wege aus der Krise. By Helmut Schmidt. Berlin: Rowohlt, 1993. DM 34 pb. Funktionaler Dilettantismus. Erfolgreich Scheiternde Organisational im ‘Dritten Sektor’ zwischen Markt und Staat. By Wolfgang Seibel. Baden‐Baden: Nomos, 1992. DM 78 hb. United Germany and the New Europe. Edited by H.D. Kurz. Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1993. £49.95 hb. Government and Politics in Western Europe. Britain, France, Italy and Germany. Second Edition. By Yves Mény with Andrew Knapp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. £30 hb, £11.95 pb. The German Question : A Cultural, Historical and Geopolitical Exploration. By Dirk Verheyen. Boulder: Westview Press. 1991. £23.50 pb. Perspectives on German Unification. Special Issue of Journal of Area Studies, No.2, 1993. Resolving the Security Dilemma in Europe: The German Debate on Non‐Offensive Defence. By Bjorn Møller. London: Brassey's, 1991. £34 hb. Politics in Austria: Still a Case of Consociationalism? (Special issue of West European Politics, Vol.15, No.1, January 1992). Edited by Kurt Richard Luther and Wolfgang C. Müller. London: Frank Cass, 1992. £22.50 hb. German Reunification. Reference Guide and Commentary. Edited by Jonathan Osmond. Harlow: Longman 1992. £51 hb. Perspectives on Modern German Economic History and Policy. By Knut Borchardt. Cambridge: CUP, 1991. £5.95 pb. Logenplatz und Schleudersitz: Erinnerungen. By Klaus Schutz. Berlin, Frankfurt/Main: Ullstein, 1992. DM 39.80 hb. Parteien in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Edited by Alf Mintzel and Heinrich Oberreuter. Opladen: Leske and Budrich, 1992. DM 48 pb. Debatte. Review of Contemporary German Studies. Vol.1, No.1. Oxford: Berg, 1993. £15 (individuals), £30 (institutions) per annum (two issues). Das Regierungssystem der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. By Joachim Jens Hesse and Thomas Ellwein. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 7th edition 1992, DM 94. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The German Comedy. Scenes of Life after the Wall. By Peter Schneider. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 1992. £9.95 pb. Germany 1945–1949: A Sourcebook. By Manfred Malzahn. London and New York: Routledge, 1991. £35 hb. Die Gestaltung der deutschen Einheit. Geschichte. Politik. Gesellschaft. Edited by Eckard Jesse and Armin Mitter. Bonn/Berlin: Bouvier, 1992. Bavaria and German Federalism: Reich to Republic, 1918–33, 1945–49. By D. R. Dorondo. London: Macmillan, 1992. Intergovernmental Relations and State Discretion. The Case of Science and Technology Policy in Germany. By Klaus H. Götz. Baden‐Baden: Nomos, 1992. DM68 pb. The Political Executive: Politicians and Management in European Local Government. Edited by Richard Batley and Adrian Campbell. London: Frank Cass, 1992. £19.50 hb. The Unification Process in Germany: From Dictatorship to Democracy. By Gertjoachim Glaessner. London: Pinter, 1992. £37.50 hb. The German Economy in the Twentieth Century: the German Reich and the Federal Republic: By Hans‐Joachim Braun. London and New York: Routledge, 1990. £40 hb. Die SPD: Klassenpartei ‐ Volkspartei ‐ Quotenpartei; Zur Entwicklung der Sozialdemokratie von Weimar bis zur deutschen Vereinigung. By peter lösche and Franz Walter. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1992. The SPD and the Challenge of Mass Politics: The Dilemma of the German Volkspartei. By Diane L. Parness. Boulder, San Francisco, Oxford: Westview Press, 1991, £25.95 pb. From Ostpolitik to Reunification: West German‐Soviet Relations since 1974. By Avrill Pittman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. £35 hb. Tel Aviver Jahrbuch für deutsche Geschichte. Band XIX, 1990: Deutschland nach 1945: Politik, Gesellschaft, Kultur. Edited by Shulamit Voklov and Frank Stern. Gerlingen: Bleicher Verlag, 1990. DM78. The Americanisation of Germany, 1945–1949 by Ralph Willett. London: Routledge, 1989. £9.99 pb. Shepherd of Democracy? America and Germany in the Twentieth Century. Edited by Carl C. Hodge and Cathal J. Nolan. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1992. United Germany: the Past, Politics, Prospects. By H.G. Peter Wallach and Ronald A. Francisco. Praeger: Westport, Conn, and London, 1992. £35.95 hb, £11.95 pb. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Schwierige Nachbarschaften. Deutsche und Polen ‐ Deutsche und Tschechen im 20. Jahrhundert. Eine Darstellung in Dokumenten. By Eckart Thurich. Stuttgart, Berlin, Köln: Verlag W. Kohlhammer, 1990. Pp.204. Die Schweiz und der'europäische Wirtschaftsraum. By René Schwor. Bern: Benteli Verlag, 1990. Pp.216. ISBN 3–7165–0686–9. Beiträge zur Wirtschafts‐ und Gesellschaftsgeschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (1949–1989). Edited by Klaus Voy, Werner Polster and Claus Thomasberger. Marburg: Metropolis, 1991. Band 1. Marktwirtschaft und politische Regulierung. Band 2. Gesellschaftliche Transformationsprozesse und materielle Lebensweise. Die alte Bundesrepublik, Kontinuität und Wandel Leviathan Sonderheft 12/1991. Edited by Bernhard Blanke and Hellmut Wollmann. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag 1991. Pp. 579. DM 78. ‐. ISBN 3–531–12197–9. Regierungsmehrheit und Opposition in den Staaten der EG. Edited by Winfried Steffani together with Jens‐peter Gabriel. Opladen: Leske und Budrich, 1991. Pp. 428. DM 55, ‐. Der Gefählsstau. Ein Psychogramm der DDR. By Hans‐Joachim Maaz. Berlin; Argon‐Verlag, 1990. DM 19. 80. The Lutheran Church and the East German State. By Robert F. Goeckel. London: Cornell University Press, 1990. $42.95 hb. ISBN 0 80142 2590. The Foreign Policy of the GDR in Africa by Gareth M. Winrow. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. £35.00 hb. The European Security Order Recast. Scenarios for the Post‐Cold War Era. By Barry Buzan, Morten Kelstrup, Pierre Lemaitre, Elzbieta Tromer and Ole Waever. London: Pinter, 1990. £35.00 hb £8.95 pb. The Changing Politics of German Security. By Stephen F. Szabo. London: Pinter, 1990. £35.00. Austrian Politics and Society Today. In Defence of Austria. By John Fitzmaurice. Foreword by Bruno Kreisky. London: Macmillan. 1991. £37.50 hb. German Federalism Today. Edited by Charlie Jeffery and Peter Savigear. Leicester and London: Leicester University Press, 1991. £32.50. A Nazi Legacy. Right Wing Extremism in Postwar Germany. By Rand C. Lewis. New York, Westport, London: Praeger, 1991. £31.85 hb. Germany and Europe in Transition. Edited by Adam B. Rotfeld and Walther Stützle. Oxford: Oxford University Press / Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, 1991. £20.00. The Federal Republic of Germany: the End of an Era. Edited by Eva Kolinsky. New York, Oxford: Berg. 1991. £39.95 hb. Political Loyalty and Public Service in West Germany: The 1972 Decree against Radicals and its Consequences. By Gerard Braunthal. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1990. £22.50 hb. The Bundesbank: Germany's Central Bank in the International Monetary System. By Ellen Kennedy. London: Pinter/Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1991. £22.50 hb, £8.95 pb. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Gerlinde Seidenspinner (ed.) Frau sein in Deutschland ‐ Aktuelle Themen, Perspektiven und Ziele feministischer Soziatforschung Juventa Verlag 1994, 216pp., ISBN 3–87966–352–1 Giles Radice The New Germans Michael Joseph, London 1995 ISBN 0–7181–3780–9 xix + 235pp, £16.50 Hannah Behrend (ed.) German Unification. The Destruction of an Economy Pluto Press, London 1995 ISBN 0–7453–1003–6, xiv + 232pp, £12.99 (pb) Walthervon Goldendach/ H.R. Minow Deutschtum Erwache! Aus dem Innenleben des staatlichen Pangermanismus Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1994 [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]