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Following our special issue on culture, we are pleased to present anopen issue of German Politics and Society. Our lead article by JamesRyan Anderson investigates a woefully underresearched area of Germanpolitics and policy making: the Bundestag's role in shaping thecountry's foreign policy. While the bulk of Anderson's empiricaldata hail from the 1950s and 1960s, the article does an excellent jobin looking at the German Bundestag's constitutional role as overseerof the executive and controlling the administration in foreign affairsby using what the author calls "formal instrumentalities."

Robert C. HolubThe Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche edited by Bernd Magnus and Kathleen M. HigginsPeter JelavichThe Ghosts of Berlin: Confronting German History in the Urban Landscape by Brian LaddAndrea WuerthA German Women's Movement: Class and Gender in Hanover, 1880-1933 by Nancy R. ReaginAnton PelinkaNazism and the Working Class in Austria: Industrial Unrest and Political Dissent in the "National Community" by Timothy KirkBen MeredithMitteleuropa and German Politics 1848 to the Present by Jörg BrechtefeldThomas WelskoppSociety, Culture, and the State in Germany 1870–1930 edited by Geoff Eley

The major characteristics of small, independent, political communities, or microstates, are examined. Microstates, qualitatively & quantitatively different from large polities, are characterized by: (1) societal homogeneity, overlapping of roles, & particularism; (2) strong feelings of collective cultural identity; (3) emotional commitment toward civic relationships & intimacy between the state & society; (4) importance of personality politics; & (5) relatively little political opposition. Microstates are distinguished from small communities that are part of larger political systems & are discussed as a specific form of polity. 8 References. D. Generoli

В статье определены особенности правового статуса профессиональных союзов в Германии и России. Рассмотрены правовые механизмы эффективной работы немецких профсоюзов, дан сравнительный анализ норм трудового права Германии и России. Рассмотрены пробелы в российском законодательстве, снижающие эффективность деятельности российских профсоюзов. ; This paper defines the characteristics of the legal status of trade unions in Germany and Russia. Examines the legal mechanisms for effective work of German Trade Unions, a comparative analysis of labor law in Germany and Russia. Addressed gaps in the Russian legislation, reducing the effectiveness of the Russian trade unions.