Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations

Introduction
Kiran Klaus Patel

Part I. The Intersection between European Integration and Unification I: Germany as Part of East Central Europe

Co-transformation since 1990: A German Path and Perspective, with European Ramifications
Philipp Ther

Old Walls Crumble, New Borders Appear: Polish Perspectives on German Unification and European Integration
Florian Peters

Return to the Periphery of Central Europe: Hungary’s "Long Refolution," German Unification, and European Integration
Ferenc Laczó

The Reluctant Neighbour: Romania’s Position on the German Question and the Deepening of Western Integration
Elena Dragomir

Part II. The Intersection between European Integration and Unification II: Germany as Part of "the West"

"Europe Whole and Free": The United States, European Integration, and the Failure of "New Atlanticism"
Philipp Gassert

The German Question and the British Inability to Give a European Answer
Mathias Haeussler

"Two Sides of the Same Coin": France’s European Response to the Challenge of German Unification, 1989-90
Hélène Miard-Delacroix

German Unification and European Integration: Deconstructing the Italian Trade-Off Narrative
Gabriele D’Ottavio

Part III. The EC and German Unification: Economic and Monetary Integration

"Un phénomène globalement positif": The European Commission, German Unification, and the Future of Europe, 1989-90
Victor Jaeschke

Germany, German Unity, and the European Monetary Experiment
Harold James

A Question of Timing: The Strasbourg EC Summit and the Acceleration of the Maastricht Process
Andreas Wirsching

Shaping Markets in Eastern Germany (and Western Europe): Multinational Dimensions of State Aid to Steel
Keith R. Allen

Part IV. Integration beyond Economics and Its Intersection with German Unification

A Crucial Step towards Europeanization? German Unification and the Creation of the Common Foreign and Security Policy in the 1990s
Gabriele Clemens

Police Cooperation for an Ever Closer Union: The Impact of Long-Term Factors and the Momentum of 1989-90 in the Europol Foundation Process
Eva Oberloskamp

Stability, Reliability, Identity: Parliamentary Debates on European Unification in East, West, and Unified Germany, 1990-2
Dominik Geppert

German Unification, the Laender, and the Europeanization of the Political System of Federal Germany
Guido Thiemeyer

List of Contributors
Index

Tangled Transformations

Unifying Germany and Integrating Europe, 1985-1995