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FROM COLD WAR TO OSTPOLIK: TWO GERMANYS IN SEARCH OF SEPARATE IDENTITIES
In: World politics: a quarterly journal of international relations, Band 29, Heft 1, S. 114129
ISSN: 0043-8871
FOR OVER A QUARTERLY-CENTURY, TWO SEPARATE STATES HAVE EXISTED IN GERMANY. BY FIGHTING OVER UNITY AND UNIFICATION THE EDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY AND THE GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC HAVE IN FACT STABLIZIED AND LEGITIMIZED THEIR SEPARATE SOCIOPOLITICAL ORDERS. THIS IMPACT ON THE DOMESTIC POLITICS OF BOTH STATES HAS BEEN THE MAIN FUNCTION OF INTER-GERMAN RELATIONS.