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A review essay on books by: Michael Sturmer, Die Grenzen der Macht. Begegnungen der Deutschen mit der Geschichte([The Boundaries of Power. German Encounters with History] Berlin: Siedler, 1992); Gregor Schollgen, Die Macht in der Mitte Europas. Stationen deutscher Aussenpolitik von Friedrich dem Grossen bis zur Gegenwart ([The Power in Central Europe. The Stations of International Politics from Frederick the Great to the Present] Munich: C. H. Beck, 1992); & Wolfgang J. Mommsen, Grossmachtstellung und Weltpolitik, 1870-1914 ([Position as a Great Power and World Politics, 1870-1914] Frankfurt: Ullstein [see listings in IRPS No. 87]). Sturmer begins by linking national identity & history, arguing that those who determine what should be remembered, develop concepts, & interpret the past will control the future. He explores the Federal Republic of Germany's historical evolution since the seventeenth century, focusing on foreign relations & integrating internal & external developments. Schollgen presents his perception of two central problems of German foreign policy, ie, Central Europe's need to obtain external security, & Germany's need for an equal position. Mommsen includes little on domestic politics, but presents an account of who was primarily responsible for WWI. C. Whitcraft

Key to Military Symbols -- pt. 1. The German War Machine on the Eve of War : Myth vs. Reality -- The Third Reich Ascendant : The Reasons Why -- pt. 2. Comparing the World's First Military Superpowers on the Eve of War -- History's Bloodiest Conflict Begins -- An Inconvenient Decision Confronts Germany's Masters of War -- Another Role of the Dice -- Stalingrad in Context -- The European War's Periphery -- Seizing the Initiative : The Sword vs. the Shield -- pt. 3. A New Perspective for Explaining D-Day's Outcome -- Hitler's Greatest Defeat -- How the Third Reich Staved off Total Defeat during the Summer of '44 -- End Game

Examines the role of Germany in the European Union; some focus on how domestic support for the symbols of a united Europe might affect the political influence of a member state within the European Union.

Re)translating the West: Humboldt, Habermas, and intercultural dialogue / John Walker -- Friedrich Schlegel's writings on India: reimagining Germany as Europe's true Oriental self / Michael Dusche -- Germany's local Orientalisms / Todd Kontje -- Tales from the Oriental borderlands: on the making and uses of colonial Algiers in Germanophone travel writing from the Maghreb around 1840 / James Hodkinson -- The Jew, the Turk, and the Indian: figurations of the Oriental in the German-speaking world / Shaswati Mazumdar -- M. C. Sprengel's writings on India: a disenchanted and forgotten Orientalism of the late eighteenth century / Jon Keune -- Occident and Orient in narratives of exile: the case of Willy Haas's Indian exile writings / Jyoti Sabharwal -- Distant neighbors: uses of Orientalism in the late nineteenth-century Austro-Hungarian Empire / Johann Heiss and Johannes Feichtinger -- Modes of Orientalism in Hungarian letters and learning of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Margit Koves -- Where the Orient ends? Orientalism and its function for imperial rule in the Russian Empire / Kerstin S. Jobst -- Noncolonial Orientalism? Czech travel writing on Africa and Asia around 1918 / Sarah Lemmen -- Oriental sexuality and its uses in nineteenth-century travelogues / Ulrike Stamm

'Tamed Power: Germany in Europe' edited by Peter J. Katzenstein is reviewed. A book review of Tamed Power: Germany in Europe, edited by Peter J. Katzenstein, is presented.