German Unification and the Union of Europe: The Domestic Politics of Integration Policy

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Dedication......Page 7
Contents......Page 9
Tables......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 11
Abbreviations......Page 13
1 A new Germany in Europe?......Page 15
Germany in Europe: a framework of analysis......Page 16
The West German model......Page 22
The West German model in Europe......Page 25
Unification and union: interests, institutions, and ideas......Page 29
Case selection......Page 33
2 Unification and "Germany in Europe''......Page 37
Formal unification, November 1989 to October 1990......Page 38
The view from the West......Page 39
The politics of unification: domestic imperatives......Page 40
The diplomacy of unification: European parameters......Page 45
After formal unification, 1990–96......Page 51
Domestic debates and policies......Page 52
European debates and policies......Page 58
Economic and monetary union......Page 60
Budgeting and finance......Page 64
Enlargement......Page 66
Interests, institutions, ideas, and the unification process......Page 69
Trade and the unification settlement, 1989–90......Page 70
General trade policy......Page 72
Eastern trade policy......Page 74
Internal market policy......Page 89
Internal market policy and the unification settlement, 1989–90......Page 90
Internal market policy after unification, 1990–95......Page 91
Conclusion......Page 95
Environmental policy......Page 97
Environmental policy and the unification settlement, 1989–90......Page 99
Environmental policy after unification, 1990–95......Page 102
Energy policy......Page 109
Energy policy and the unification settlement, 1989–90......Page 113
Energy policy after unification, 1990–95......Page 114
Conclusions......Page 125
Pre-unification competition policy......Page 127
Competition policy and the unification settlement, 1989–90......Page 128
Competition policy after unification: continuity in theory......Page 130
The domestic politics of privatization, 1990–94......Page 132
Privatization and the European Community, 1990–94......Page 141
Case studies......Page 146
Shipbuilding......Page 147
Steel......Page 154
Post-1994 privatization and the EU: mounting controversy......Page 161
Conclusions......Page 164
Structural funds......Page 166
Structural funds and the unification settlement, 1989–90......Page 169
Structural funds after unification, 1990–95......Page 171
Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)......Page 186
CAP and the unification settlement, 1989–90......Page 188
CAP after unification, 1990–96......Page 190
Conclusions......Page 203
The politics of continuity: constitutive outcomes......Page 204
The politics of continuity and change: regulative outcomes......Page 206
Explaining policy outcomes: the absence of politicization......Page 208
Explaining policy outcomes: western Germany as a locus of conflict......Page 209
Explaining policy outcomes: eastern Germany as a locus of conflict......Page 210
Trade Policy......Page 212
State aid, agriculture, and structural funds......Page 213
Interests, institutions, and ideas: a reprise......Page 218
United Germany in Europe......Page 220
Bibliography......Page 226
Index......Page 239