Word: unificationism
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But that was the postwar world; this is the post-cold war world, and things are dizzyingly different. Europe has been transformed by the retreat of Soviet imperial power, the collapse of Communist governments in the center of the Continent and the evaporation of the Warsaw Pact. The blinding pace...
Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev began the year opposed to German unification but unexpectedly backed East German Prime Minister Hans Modrow's proposal earlier this month for a united, neutral country. Gorbachev then agreed with visiting West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl that unification is something for the Germans to work out...
Since that wall was breached in November, German unification has usually been described as inevitable. Now it is considered imminent. NATO and Warsaw Pact Foreign Ministers gathered last week in Ottawa to discuss and quickly agree to Open Skies, a newly revived Eisenhower-era proposal that will allow unarmed planes...
What they came up with is a scheme insiders have dubbed "two plus four," which calls first for the governments of the two Germanys to meet, probably just after the March 18 elections in East Germany. They are to make internal arrangements for political and economic merger. When those have...
Actual unification might be simpler than it appears. Article 23 of West German Basic Law, the country's constitution, provides that other German states can simply accede to the Federal Republic. Some legal experts in Bonn interpret that to mean that East Germany or its individual states can simply announce...