German Politics and Society
Aims & Scope
Editor: Jeffrey J. Anderson, Georgetown University
German Politics and Society is a joint publication of the BMW Center for German and European Studies (of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University) and all North American universities featuring programs and centers of German and European studies associated with the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). These centers are represented by their directors on the journal's Editorial Committee.
German Politics and Society is a peer-reviewed journal published and distributed by Berghahn Journals. It is the only American publication that explores issues in modern Germany from the combined perspectives of the social sciences, history, and cultural studies.
The journal provides a forum for critical analysis and debate about politics, history, film, literature, visual arts, and popular culture in contemporary Germany. Every issue includes contributions by renowned scholars commenting on recent books about Germany.
Subjects: German Studies, Politics, Sociology, History, Economics, Cultural Studies
Forthcoming Issue, Summer 2012
Volume 30 • Issue 2 • 2012
ARTICLES
The Commemorative Ceremonies of the Expellees: Tag der Heimat and Volkstrauertag
Jeffrey Luppes
Corporeality As a Weapon: Siegmund Breibart’s Embodiment of Muskeljudentum
Matt Sherman
The Concept of “Normality” in German Foreign Policy since Unification
Hans Kundnani
FORUM
Germany and the Arab Spring: Foreign Policy between New Activism and Old Habits
Edmund Ratka
BOOK REVIEWS
David Meskill, Optimizing the German Workforce: Labor Administration from Bismarck to the Economic Miracle
Reviewed by Gregory Baldi
Jan-Werner Müller, Contesting Democracy: Political Ideas in Twentieth-Century Europe
Reviewed by John Bendix
Douglas B. Klusmeyer and Demetrios G. Papademetriou, Immigration Policy in the Federal Republic of Germany
Reviewed by Suzanna M. Crage
Derek Hastings, Catholicism & the Roots of Nazism: Religious Identity and National Socialism
Reviewed by Robert P. Ericksen
Review of Pertti Ahonen, Death at the Berlin Wall
Reviewed by Hope M. Harrison
Wolfgang Scholz, The Social Budget of Germany: Keeping the Welfare State in Perspective
Reviewed by John Bendix
Philip Broadbent and Sabine Hake, eds., Berlin. Divided City, 1945-1989
Reviewed by Helge F. Jani
Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
Reviewed by Larson Powell