In 1990, the future of Europe's international politics hinged on two questions. How would unification affect the conduct of German foreign policy? Would those institutions that had given security and prosperity to Western Europe during the Cold War now do the same for the entire continent, and if so, how. The intersection of these questions is the topic of this book, which explores, quite plainly, what made Germany's policies towards its immediate Eastern neighbours tick.

HENNING TEWES is Director of the Konrad Ardenauer Foundation in Poland. He has contributed to books, journals and newspapers and co-edited (with Jonathan Wright) Liberalism, Anti-Semitism and Democracy.