Focusing on America's global interactions, this updated annual publication offers an in-depth analysis of the United States' role on the world stage. As part of the esteemed "World Today Series," it provides valuable insights into political, economic, and cultural dynamics that shape international relations involving the U.S.
The book offers an in-depth examination of the USA and global dynamics from 2020 to 2022, focusing on political and economic histories, significant current events, and emerging trends. It serves as an essential resource for students seeking to understand the complexities of these nations during a transformative period.
Offering a comprehensive overview, this book delves into the political and economic histories of the USA and various countries around the world. It highlights current events and emerging trends, providing students with essential insights and knowledge to understand global dynamics.
Updated annually and part of the renowned World Today Series, USA and the World presents an unusually penetrating look into America and its relationship to the rest of the world.
This book focuses on a key aspect of the German question--the problem of German national identity and communist ideology in their historical perspective since 1945 and their immediate clash in the downfall of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in 1989. The book's theme might be summarized as German identity recovered. The book is unique in that it is in part an eyewitness account of one of Europe's most startling transformations.In the four decades of its existence, the GDR did not succeed in fostering a separate political or social identity, and thus an underlying difficulty of the state was never resolved. The overriding objective of the political socialization process in the GDR was to instill socialist political culture into the citizenry. This political culture had not only to be uniform with ideological imperatives and aspirations, but had to stand on its own because of the absence of a broader-based national culture. Given the newness of the state and its political institutions, and the continual challenge on the national question presented by the mere existence of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), the East German Communist Party (SED) always faced an uphill task. This book should be of interest to students and scholars interested in Germany, in Europe, and in the fate of communism.