Think of German unification, 1990.

One common characteristic, then and now, is a power shift. Back then, Great Britain s relative power was in decline, while Germany s had been rising since German unification in 1871.

The influential German journalist Ludwig von Rochau, who coined the term Realpolitik, described the new German mood on the eve of Otto von Bismarck s last war of unification. German unity was not a question of the heart s desire it was a mundane business transaction, in which no one should lose, but everyone should grab as much as they could for themselves.

Unification of States

Korean Unification and Global Peace

Steps toward unification exhibit the simplicity.

The Ifo business climate indicator, which had been rising since the second half of 2005, reached its highest level since Germany s unification boom. After years of stagnant growth, the German economy has been growing at an annual rate of about 2.5 in 2006.

This is the way theories of unification work.

(g) Harmonization unification of the criminal code and the penal code

Chairman of the Vanuatu Unification Movement and the government prime minister, Salvai

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The unification of Mostar continued to progress in the first half of 2005.

This has meant either a decline in asset prices quoted in dollars or in dollars quoted in other currencies. Indeed, adjusted for inflation, the dollar is now nearly as low against the euro as it was against the deutschmark in 1992, when German unification resulted in the breakdown of the European currency system.

A German Europe?

France s German Mirror

I'm not German.

German (mother tongue).

Original in German

That was a big unification for those days, although today we take it for granted.

Government Commission on the German Corporate Governance Code (2005). The German Corporate Governance Code ('Cromme Code')

Grundsatzkommission Corporate Governance (German Panel for Corporate Governance) (2000). Corporate Governance Rules for German Quoted Companies.

A German prison camp.

I don't understand German.

The Irrelevant German Consumer

The German Leadership Question

Celebrating the German Model

German Banks on Top

Santa Claus Speaks German

My car is German.

I don't speak German.

Do you speak German?

You understand German, right?

You understand German, right?

(f) German Spaceguard Center

If Franco German rivalry shaped the era between 1870 and 1920, it was the conflict with Russia that defined the next 70 years. That conflict was forgotten for two decades after the end of the Cold War, because Russia s internal travails and Germany s desire to demonstrate its post unification harmlessness kept both powers from flexing their muscles.

On the unification of Germany, he resisted the advice of Thatcher and others, apparently out of a sense of fairness and responsiveness to his friend, German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. In October 1989, Bush responded to a call from Kohl by publicly stating that he did not share the concern that some European countries have about a reunified Germany.

The top is the German.

This is a German bunker.

The Limits of German Guilt

Europe s Franco German Dream Team

The End of German Hegemony

Europe s German Ball and Chain

Indeed, German products were omnipresent.

The Threat of German Amnesia

He prefers French to German.