@article{1446795,
      recid = {1446795},
      author = {Oswald, Michael, and Robertson, John Douglas,},
      title = {The legacy and impact of German unification : the elusive  dream of 'flourishing landscapes' /},
      pages = {1 online resource :},
      abstract = {On October 3, 1990 the future of both Europe and Germany  became powerfully and inexorably intertwined across a  politically broadened continent powering transformative  social, political and economic interactions. The thirty  year mark after the then reigning chancellor Helmut Kohl  promised 'flourishing landscapes' in the former GDR is more  than just a new anniversary from which mandatory  reflections must follow. Arguably, it represents a temporal  boundary between the adjustments and reactions conditioned  and captivated by a sense of something new and uncertain,  and that point moving forward from which unifications  legacy inescapably tethers Germanys future to normal  politics shaped by the issues of the moment, and not  politics gripped by the debates of unification itself. That  legacy is defined by an accumulation over thirty years of  adjustments, mutations, counter-adjustments and strategic  reactions which have now delivered through the many ripples  of change a Germany managing the course-trajectory which  unification has relentlessly plotted. The foreseeable  future will certainly see that legacy of unification  tenaciously continue to project yet shrouded within the  background of Germanys routine politics. This volume  explores that legacy within the post-unification era and  reflects on the way forward into a near-term German future  no longer consumed with unification itself but with the  reality of politics it has steadily defined. Michael Oswald  is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the  University of Passau, Germany, Research Associate at the  John F. Kennedy Institute, Free University of Berlin,  Germany, Faculty at the Institute of European and  International Studies (CIFE), France, and the author of The  Palgrave Handbook of Populism (2021). John Robertson is  Professor of Political Science at Texas A&M University,  USA. He is the author and co-author of numerous articles  dealing with European affairs and comparative politics  published in leading political science journals, including  the American Political Science Review, American Journal of  Political Science, Journal of Politics, Comparative  Politics, German Politics, International Political Science  Review, and International Studies Quarterly.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1446795},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97154-0},
}