The Internationalization of the German Political Economy

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

   PDF

2. Introduction

   • William D. Graf

   Pages 1-7

3. Internationalization and Exoneration: Social Functions of the Transnationalizing West German Political Economy in the Post-war Era

   • William D. Graf

   Pages 8-24

4. Change and Internationalization in Industry: Towards a Sectoral Interpretation of West German Politics

   • Christian Deubner

   Pages 25-63

5. The Federal Republic and the New International Division of Labour: Crucial Developments in the 1970s

   • Georg Simonis

   Pages 64-89

6. Internationalization and the Reorganization of Production and Marketing in the Volkswagen Corporation

   • Reinhard Doleschal

   Pages 90-109

7. The Integration of the West German Textile and Clothing Industry Into the New International Division of Labour

   • Sibylle Raasch, Phillipp Wahnschaffe

   Pages 110-139

8. Franco—German Economic Relations Within the International Division of Labour: Interdependence, Divergence or Structural Dominance?

   • Christian Deubner, Udo Rehfeld, Frieder Schlupp

   Pages 140-186

9. Towards the New Germany: the Logic of Rapid Unification and the Social Experiment of Radical Marketization in the GDR

   • Andreas Pickel

   Pages 187-203

10. The Transformation of the East German Economy: The Visions of the German Parties and Governments — and the Reality

    • Jörg Roesler

    Pages 204-221

11. The ‘New’ Germany and the Third World: Aspects of a Changing Relationship

    • Brigitte H. Schulz

    Pages 222-260

12. International Aspects of an Alternative Economic Policy

    • Karl-Georg Zinn

    Pages 261-284

13. Gross-Deutschland in Europe: Planned or Unplanned Effects of the German Anschluß on Hegemonic Leadership in the European Community

    • Thomas O. Hueglin

    Pages 285-306

14. World-Market Strategy and World-Power Politics: German Europeanization and Globalization Projects in the 1990s

    • Frieder Schlupp

    Pages 307-345

15. Back Matter

    Pages 347-358

    PDF

The internationalization of the German political economy in the postwar era has produced a special socio-economic and political formation which this anthology views as a 'hegemonic project'. Based upon a virtually total West German integration into the 'West', this project has evolved within a new international division of labour and a global political system in which the German state, with its extreme level of export dependency and need for stability, has become a guardian and champion of the global status quo.

• desegregation
• economic policy
• economy
• globalization
• government
• Policy
• political economy
• production
• Third World
• transformation

• Department of Political Studies, University of Guelph, Canada

  William D. Graf

Policies and ethics