Dangerous Power: An International History of German Unification, 1969-1993
Journal: Libra
Year: 2017

After 1945, achieving a peaceful unification of Germany remained a prospect as elusive as ending the Cold War itself. While overcoming national division remained but a distant and illusory hope, for Bonn, surmounting the Yalta-Potsdam system of Four Power control over Germany remained the more important ambition; with the 1945 machinery in place and with Soviet domination over half of Germany, no unification formula would be worth pursuing. This study shows how, from 1969 onward, Bonn pursued a