The internationalization of the German political economy in the postwar era has produced a special socio-economic and political formation which this anthology views as a 'hegemonic project'. Based upon a virtually total West German integration into the 'West', this project has evolved within a new international division of labour and a global political system in which the German state, with its extreme level of export dependency and need for stability, has become a guardian and champion of the global status quo.

List of Tables, Figures and Maps - List of Foreign Terms and Abbreviations - Acknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction; W.D.Graf - Internationalization and Exoneration: Social Functions of the Transnationalizing West German Political Economy in the Postwar Era; W.D.Graf - Change and Internationalization in Industry: Toward a Sectoral Interpretation of West German Politics; C.Deubner - The Federal Republic and the New International Division of Labour: Crucial Developments in the Seventies; G.Simonis - Internationalization and the Reorganization of Production and Marketing in the Volkswagen Corporation; R.Doleschal - The Integration of the West German Textile and Clothing Industry into the New International Division of Labour; S.Raasche & P.Wahnschaffe - German-French Economic Relations within the International Division of Labour: Interdependence, Divergence or Structural Dominance?; C.Deubner, U.Rehfeld & F.Schlupp - Towards the New Germany: The Logic of Rapid Unification and the Social Experiment of Radical Marketization in the GDR; A.Pickel - The Transformation of the East German Economy: The Visions of the German Parties and Governments: And the Reality; J.Roesler - The 'New' Germany and the Third World: Aspects of a Changing Relationship; B.H.Schultz - External Dimensions of an Alternative Economic Policy; K-G.Zinn - Gross-Deutschland in Europe: Planned or Unplanned Effects of the German Anschluss on Hegemonic Leadership in the European Community; T.O.Hueglin - World Market Strategy and World-Power Politics: German Europeanization and Globalization Projects in the 1990's; F.Schlupp - Index