Reluctant Realists Reluctant Realists

Reluctant Realists

The CDU/DSU and West German Ostpolitik

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Publisher Description

This is a study of the evolution of the West German Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) approach to relations with the Soviet bloc (and particularly East Germany), from fierce antagonism to any accommodation with Communist regimes in 1969 to the growing acceptance of the necessity for rapprochement in the 1980s. Clay Clemens, basing his analyses on interviews with leading political figures as well as on party documents, examines the party’s changing ostpolitik position during the period in which it was in opposition (1969-82) and assesses the factors—international, domestic, and interparty—that brought about a change in that policy. A concluding section deals with events since 1982.

  • GENRE
    Politics & Current Affairs
    RELEASED
    2012
    1 June
    LANGUAGE
    EN
    English
    LENGTH
    382
    Pages
    PUBLISHER
    Duke University Press
    SELLER
    Duke University Press
    SIZE
    1.2
    MB

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