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基本説明
The chapters analyze domestic and foreign policies, political cultures, and compare trends in business relations, migration, cultrue, education, journalism, law, and religion.
Full Description
American-German relations are in transition. A number of explanations have been given for this fact: some focusing on the personalities of politicians, some on political and attitudinal disparities, still others pointing to disagreements about foreign policy objectives since the end of the Cold War and 9/11. This volume, written by American and German scholarly experts, while not denying the relevance and validity of such explanations of the transatlantic estrangement, address the extent, resilience, and the causes of misconceptions, misunderstandings, and confrontations in the transatlantic relationship as well as highlighting commonalities and enduring ties between the U.S. and Germany. The chapters analyze domestic and foreign policies, political cultures, and compare trends in business relations, migration, culture, education, journalism, law, and religion. The authors contend that differences in political cultures, societal priorities, and national interests are inevitable, perhaps even desirable and not necessarily an obstacle to a continuous and mutually beneficial exchange or even the development of a special relationship. But first of all they need to be acknowledged, then understood, and finally dealt with in an atmosphere of mutual trust recognizing common ground. The book ends with suggestions about how to deal with different interpretations and perceptions in order to reclaim a strategic partnership for progressive changes in an increasingly multipolar world.
Contents
1 Section 1: Transatlantic Relations 2 Introduction: New Challenges for Transatlantic Estrangement 2 The Bush Administration's Faith-Based Foreign Policy - A Matter of Transatlantic Estrangement 4 Beneath the Iceberg - Liberalism at CrossroadsExamining a Few Issues in the Current Ridt in German-American Relations Chapter 4 Drifting Apart: Cultural Dimensions of the Transatlantic Estrangement 6 Germans from Venus? The Out-of-Area Problems in US-German Relations 7 Transatlantic Economy:When the Political Goings Get Tough, the Tough Get Going 7 The Hunt for a Competitive Advantage: How PISA has Shaped Discussions over Educational Policy Reform in the US and German 8 Transatlantic Discourse? Reflections on Comparing Immigration and Immigrant Integration in the United States and Germany 9 Bonds that Hold: Germany and America in an Age of Turbulence 9 The New York Times and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: Two Perspectives on the War in Iraq 10 Section 2: Transatlantic Comparisons 10 Wars Apart: The Second World War Memory Cultures of Germany and the United States 11 Celsius 9/11: Michael Moore's German Reception and the (Contemporary) Image of America 12 Ascetic Protestantism and American Uniqueness: The Political Cultures of Germany and the United States Compared 16 Conclusion: Transatlantic Relations-Probable Futures, and Desirable Outcomes
