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Introduction -- PART 1. FROM THE PAST TO THE PRESENT. Chapter 1: The Emergence of Diplomacy and the Great Powers -- Chapter 2: The Classical System of Diplomacy, 1815-1914 -- Chapter 3: The Diplomatic Revolution Begins, 1919-1939 -- Chapter 4: A Postwar System of Security: Great Power Directorate or United Nations? -- Chapter 5: The Cold War -- Chapter 6: The Evolving International System -- PART 2. HISTORY, THEORY, AND PRACTICE. Chapter 7: Lessons of History and Knowledge for Statecraft -- Chapter 8: Negotiation -- Chapter 9: Deterrence -- Chapter 10: Coercive Diplomacy -- Chapter 11: Crisis Management -- PART 3. RESTRAINTS AND REFLECTIONS. Chapter 12: Ethics and Other Restraints on Force and Statecraft -- Conclusion: Reflections on Force and Statecraft and the Challenges of Our Time.

Part One. Politics -- The Nineteenth Century : The Triumph and Crisis of Liberalism -- Politics of a Plague -- Demonic Democracy -- Berlin in the 1920s : The Capital Between Empire and Third Reich -- "Working Toward the Führer" -- Founding Father -- Part Two. Culture -- Great Scots! -- Frederick the Great and the Prussian Style -- Frederick the Great and Moses Mendelssohn : Thoughts on Jewish Emancipation -- The Magic Circle -- On the German Historical Consciousness -- Irony and Rage in the German Social Novel : Theodor Fontane and Heinrich Mann -- The Good, the Bad, and the Bourgeois -- The End of the Golden Age -- Politics and Literature -- Berlin : The Hauptstadt, Back Where It Belongs -- Part Three. War -- Prussian Soldiers Against Militarism : Corvin, Willich, Engels, Rüstow -- The Political Leader as Strategist -- The War Against War -- "A Very Strange Machine" -- How to Think About the Swiss -- Fate and the Führer -- The Goblin at War -- The Russians Are Coming! -- Mission Possible -- Coda: History as a Humanistic Discipline

This book examines the current and historical dimensions of relations between the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany, focusing on the complex economic issues that make the two countries interdependent and on the resulting policy implications. The contributors analyze the reasons for increasingly problematic relations between the United States and West Germany, arguing that the situation is exacerbated by the inadequate understanding Americans often have of the changing nature of society, politics, and culture in West Germany.