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The euro crisis is tearing Europe apart. But the heart of the matter is that, as the crisis unfolds, the basic rules of European democracy are being subverted or turned into their opposite, bypassing parliaments, governments and EU institutions. Multilateralism is turning into unilateralism, equality into hegemony, sovereignty into the dependency and recognition into disrespect for the dignity of other nations. Even France, which long dominated European integration, must submit to Berlin’s strictures now that it must fear for its international credit rating.

How did this happen? The anticipation of the European catastrophe has already fundamentally changed the European landscape of power. It is giving birth to a political monster: a German Europe.

Germany did not seek this leadership position - rather, it is a perfect illustration of the law of unintended consequences. The invention and implementation of the euro was the price demanded by France in order to pin Germany down to a European Monetary Union in the context of German unification. It was a quid pro quo for binding a united Germany into a more integrated Europe in which France would continue to play the leading role. But the precise opposite has happened. Economically the euro turned out to be very good for Germany, and with the euro crisis Chancellor Angela Merkel became the informal Queen of Europe.

The new grammar of power reflects the difference between creditor and debtor countries; it is not a military but an economic logic. Its ideological foundation is ‘German euro nationalism’ - that is, an extended European version of the Deutschmark nationalism that underpinned German identity after the Second World War. In this way the German model of stability is being surreptitiously elevated into the guiding idea for Europe.

The Europe we have now will not be able to survive in the risk-laden storms of the globalized world. The EU has to be more than a grim marriage sustained by the fear of the chaos that would be caused by its breakdown. It has to be built on something more positive: a vision of rebuilding Europe bottom-up, creating a Europe of the citizen. There is no better way to reinvigorate Europe than through the coming together of ordinary Europeans acting on their own behalf.

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"A compelling analysis of Germany."
―The Economist

"A blistering indictment of Germany's modern-day economic domination, by one of Germany's most distinguished intellectuals."
―Daily Mail

"A brilliant and succinct analysis of the political genius of Angela Merkel."
―Charles Moore, Sunday Telegraph

"A short but punchy book by the distinguished German sociologist."
―Prospect

"A welcome tonic to reactionary discourses on the ills of Brussels."
―Times Literary Supplement

"Democracy won't be real in Europe until that kind of law has to be proposed, debated, and voted on by all concerned. Beck has moved us a small step closer to this highly desirable consummation, and to a unified political will in Europe, by getting his readers accustomed to thinking of a 'European Germany' rather than a 'German Europe'."
―Los Angeles Review of Books

"Diagnoses Europe's troubles with a realism and clarity that suggests a long and arduous road ahead."
―Financial Times

"A thought-provoking essay on the European economic crisis, recommended to all interested in this topic."
―Journal of Global Faultlines

"A brilliant analysis of Europe's shifting landscape of power."
―Joschka Fischer, Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor of Germany, 1998-2005

"An immensely incisive and encouraging book. Not only does it present an eye-opening outlook on Europe's crisis, it also offers a credible solution."
―Daniel Cohn-Bendit, MEP and co-president of the Greens/Free European Alliance Group in the European Parliament

"Ulrich Beck's German Europe is one of those rare and brilliant political tracts that offers us a new language with which to understand the present crisis so that we can shape the future."
―Mary Kaldor, Professor of Global Governance, LSE

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Ulrich Beck is one of the world’s leading sociologists and social thinkers, well-known for his best-selling book Risk Society. He is Emeritus Professor at Munich and Professor of Sociology at the LSE.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Polity; 1st edition (April 22, 2013)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 120 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 074566539X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0745665399
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.6 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.7 x 0.58 x 8.8 inches

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Pennydimenickel

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Super insightful and relevant to today's issues. Beck was one of the most important German scholars. It is helpful to read his work if you are studying German, European, or International studies.

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Leonora Arteaga

concise and straight to the point

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An essay over how Germany has took over the EU and how to counter it's influence for the good of the Union. Basically Beck's point is that if Europe centers itself among the original project there are chances for success, but if it centers around the financial crisis, it could be a recipe for disaster. Not just for the project, but also for the member states.

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Esteban Ess

A Scholar's Essay On EuroZone Problems and Solutions

Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2013

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The author, Ulrich Beck holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from Munich University earned in 1972 - or 41 years ago. He has held professorships in sociology in Munich, London, and Paris and has worked and lectured in the discipline of sociology for most of his career. He is eminently qualified to conduct research and to philosophize and draw conclusions about the future of the Euro Area and the 17 countries who are its members. This 86 page hard cover, bound essay with 12 pages of notes is a small book, but it is a challenging read and the curious reader may choose to use it as a launching point from which to explore the history of the Euro Area. The book, published in 2103 is topical as the author explores how the economic crises in Greece and Spain, with symptoms in Italy and Portugal came to pass and how the German government, most notably led by Angela Merkel, has set out the conditions for the weak economies under which they may receive some financial support from the stronger nations in the Euro Zone. The author points out some of the Machiavellian tactics employed by Angela Merkel to gain acceptance of economic policies that perhaps benefit Germany in the long run and that benefit the large banks and other institutions at the expense of the ordinary citizens of the economically troubled nations who feel they are being imposed upon to bear a larger economic burden, to make sacrifices in their life style, and to work harder to, hopefully, help their country ride out the recovery. The European Union has 28 member nations and 500 Million people trying to share territory, resources, and an economy to become more successful together than they would be individually. Only 17 of these EU nations are in the Euro Zone. The author explores the increasing tendency of Germany to build what could become hegemonic power over the direction of Europe. He goes into the sociological aspects of the people at the top as well as the bottom of the economic scale and how they are impacted by the force of German economic might. He sets out arguments for changes that should begin at the grass roots and could lead to a more democratic Europe. The educated reader who already knows European history and has a grounding in economics would be a better audience for this book than the more general reader. I will pay the author this respect; his book caused me to explore the history of the Euro Zone and for that I am thankful. On the other hand, I feel that some of the possible solutions stated by the author are too general and based upon soft data in the book. This book would have benefited from maps, graphs of the economic data and more hard facts to aid the reader. The author makes a good case regarding the work ethic, savings habits, organization and so forth of the Germans as their culture which drives economic success. He also discusses the cultures of Italy and Spain where people do not work as hard, save as much and have a different goal in how they wish to live. He puts forth a possible future movement in general terms.

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DAVID BRYSON

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Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2013

This is a book that I started to read with high hopes, because before I opened it I had been reading the testimonials on the back cover. One I actually agree with, the one from Germany's former foreign minister Joschka Fischer, who describes it as a brilliant analysis, which it is. The next tribute is from Daniel Cohn-Bendit MEP, whom I remember as a leading figure in the student `manifestations' called `la chienlit' by de Gaulle in 1968 (if I have got the year right from memory). Cohn-Bendit goes so far as to say that the book offers `a credible solution' to the current European crisis. We could certainly do with one of those, and Cohn-Bendit's credentials as a radical thinker piqued my curiosity further. The third contribution is from the respected Professor Mary Kaldor, who even finds that the book offers us a `new language' to help us understand the crisis and shape the future.

If this is a new language, it is not one that will advance popular understanding to any great extent, in my own opinion. It is more than slightly caricature-German-professor, asking to be read out in a musical-hall German accent in a manner not thought socially acceptable these days. `It is no exaggeration to say that overcoming images of the enemy becomes the national raison d'etat', and much else like this, is hardly the kind of sloganeering that would have sent M Cohn-Bendit, in his revolutionary days, on to the barricades. It is just not going to connect with ordinary citizens, and just such a failure has been characteristic of the European project for decades now. It's not obvious to me how we are going to put the matter right, because the conversation is now being heavily dominated by Euro-sceptics, and for obvious reasons. The Euro-sceptics are making sense, they are talking the language of the ordinary citizen, and while their points are superficial compared with the vision that once inspired the great European project there is a real danger that they could bring the edifice down round our ears, leaving us to appreciate too late what some of our `leaders' ought to have been keeping constantly in the forefront of our political consciousness.

I'm not clear what M Cohn-Bendit finds to be the `credible solution' in these pages, but he is (or at least was) a man of action, so I hope he will tell us. The strength of this book is in the analysis it offers - i.e. if we thought we had understood the problems well enough without much academic labouring, there are more of them than maybe we realised and we can thank Professor Beck for telling us. I agree that Beck's consultant-style prescription for thinking in a supra-national way is on the right lines. It is how we ought to have been thinking for many years, it is how the genuine visionaries were no doubt thinking and hopefully still are, but it was all kept away from citizens in their daily lives. That was all very well while the EU had an image of being Sister Bountiful handing out goodies with no questions asked. When the banking crisis hit and financial arithmetic descended on the thoughtless revellers like Grendel rising from the swamp then the EU suddenly became a monster.

In other words, what series of steps is Professor Beck recommending other than to tell us to wind back some notional clock and have done what we did not do? What is really illuminating is the way Beck traces the emergence of German Europe, the book's title and properly so. He understands clearly that what is happening comes from events being in charge of us rather than the other way about. Frau Merkel had leadership thrust upon her, she is an astute politician but a reactive one rather than proactive, and indeed she uses delay in the face of decisions as a political tactic, leaving the impending threat of inaction unspoken so that the countries in need of help have to swallow some bitter medicine, of a traditional type that the European project had been intended to escape from, out of panic. In other words, it was their own decision, not hers. Indeed, but it is not what Europe was supposed to be like.

Brilliant as it is, Beck's analysis stops short of indicating any Shape of Things to Come. As a British citizen and a convinced European myself, I had always been uneasy at the way the Euro-protagonists like Heath and Jenkins were not really coming clean with our electorate concerning the loss of some sovereignty that was necessarily implied in European membership. Beck does not say this, but I also feel that really stupid rigidity of attitude from continental Europe is playing into the hands of those who want to scrap the entire project. I mean, there are real and tangible issues over open borders and immigration for one thing, and this issue is going to be really nasty if some realism and flexibility, rather than just reciting the rules and treaties, is not shown.

On the other hand, the consequences of a breakup the European Union, supposing that could happen in any clean or complete way, which I don't even believe, will be a lot worse. Many thanks to Professor Beck for a deep and thoughtful academic thesis that is likely to achieve a readership of approximately 0.02% of the people it needs to reach. Is there a genuine prophet out there who can both see what needs to be said and say it so that the issue will be understood?

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Mike Norris

Le buone idee in tempi difficili

Reviewed in Italy on December 30, 2013

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Ulrich Beck non ha paura di dire cose che i politici non preferiscono di discutere. Abbiamo bisogno di pensare al di là dei nostri nazionalismi e pratiche protetti.

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SJW

German Europe

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 24, 2013

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This is a translation from German. it is a very interesting analysis but I found some of the language a bit difficult to follow.

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Rob Lawlee

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 14, 2018

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Excellent overview of the power and policies of Germany within Europe.

Eng Luis Jardim

Get Germanized if you like

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 21, 2013

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Basically stating that we're all supposed to get Germanized because that seems to be inevitable, just because Germans have more initiative and work harder than everyone else. One more silly promotion of the German Myth.

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J A NEWMAN

Explains the current situation in Europe

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 4, 2013

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If you are wondering why it is that Germany is thriving financially while other countries in Europe like Greece, Spain and Italy are not, this book will explain the reason to you. A small, quick to read book. Gets to the point.

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