Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations IntroductionKiran 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 RamificationsPhilipp 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 IntegrationElena 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 AnswerMathias Haeussler “Two Sides of the Same Coin”: France’s European Response to the Challenge of German Unification, 1989–90Hélène Miard-Delacroix German Unification and European Integration: Deconstructing the Italian Trade-Off NarrativeGabriele 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, 1989–90Victor 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 ProcessAndreas Wirsching Shaping Markets in Eastern Germany (and Western Europe): Multinational Dimensions of State Aid to SteelKeith 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 1990sGabriele Clemens Police Cooperation for an Ever Closer Union: The Impact of Long-Term Factors and the Momentum of 1989–90 in the Europol Foundation ProcessEva Oberloskamp Stability, Reliability, Identity: Parliamentary Debates on European Unification in East, West, and Unified Germany, 1990–2Dominik Geppert German Unification, the Laender, and the Europeanization of the Political System of Federal GermanyGuido Thiemeyer List of ContributorsIndex

“This highly worthwhile return to the events of 1989/90 draws extensively upon both new archival releases and new historiographical perspectives to question much of what we thought we knew about the interconnections between the end of the Cold War in Europe and the simultaneous acceleration of the integration process. The outcome is both stimulating and provocative.”