Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Jeffrey J. Anderson -- The Federal Republic at sixty : popular myths, actual accomplishments and competing interpretations / Konrad H. Jarausch -- "Als wär's ein Stück von uns ..." : German politics and society traverses twenty years of united Germany / Charles Maier -- The last East German and the memory of the German Democratic Republic / A. James McAdams -- The mastered past? : collective memory trends in Germany since unification / Eric Langenbacher -- Obamamania and anti-Americanism as complementary concepts in contemporary German discourse / Ruth Hatlapa and Andrei S. Markovits -- Passing time since the Wende : recent German film on unification / Bradley Prager -- Post coitum triste est...? : sexual politics and cultures in postunification Germany / Dagmar Herzog -- From Ausländer to Inlander : the changing faces of citizenship in post-wall Germany / Joyce Marie Mushaben -- The social integration of Germany since unification / Hilary Silver -- Gender politics in the Berlin Republic : four issues of identity and institutional change / Myra Marx Ferree -- The Federal Republic at twenty : of blind spots and peripheral visions / Jeffrey J. Anderson -- Is there a single German party system? / Russell J. Dalton and Willy Jou -- Higher education in Germany : fragmented change or paradigm shift? / Helga Welsh -- The normative power of a normal state : power and revolutionary vision in Germany's post-wall foreign policy / Beverly Crawford -- Flight from risk : unified Germany and the role of beliefs in the European response to the financial crisis / Abraham Newman -- German economic unification twenty years later / Holger Wolf -- The elusive quest for normalcy : the German economy since unification / Stephen J. Silvia -- Twenty years after German unification : the restructuring of the German welfare and employment regime / Anke Hassel -- Industry and finance in Germany since unification / Richard Deeg -- Ideas, institutions and organized capitalism : the German model of political economy twenty years after unification / Christopher S. Allen -- Conclusion : the Germans must have done something right / Eric Langenbacher.