This thesis examines the planning and organization of the Munich 1972 and Seoul 1988 Olympic Games with a specific focus on how the South Korean and West German governments attempted to use the Games to positively change their images abroad. Both countries attempted to distance themselves not only from their own war torn pasts, but also from their Communist counterparts, East Germany and North Korea. The West German government (and the Munich Olympic Committee) hoped to create a “peaceful” and “carefree atmosphere” that would directly counter images of Nazism, and the South Korean government (and the Seoul Olympic Committee) sought to use the Olympics to legitimize a military dictatorship and prove the country’s economic growth following the Korean War. By giving the Games so much importance, however, both governments transformed the Olympics into a flashpoint for international and domestic conflicts, and unforeseen events, such as the Black September terrorist attack, the South Korean democracy movement, and North Korea’s demands to co-host the Games, changed and defined the public images of both the Games and their host countries.

This paper looks at the struggles faced by German policymakers in the years following reunification. East Germany struggled with an immediate transformation from a planned economy to a social market economy, while West Germany sent billions of Deutsche Marks to its eastern states. Because of the unequal nature of these two countries, policymakers had to decide on what they would place more emphasis: social benefits for the East or economic protection for the West. The West German state-level, Federal Government and the East German governments struggled in finding multilaterally beneficial policies. This paper looks at the four key issues of reunification: currency conversion, transfer payments, re-privatization, and unemployment. In following the German Basic Law, the policies pursued in terms of these issues tended to place more emphasis on eastern social benefits.

This thesis analyzes a crucial period in the relations between the Federal Republic of Germany and the United States of America, through the use of US government internal documents. Willy Brandt brought forth a new vision of Ostpolitik that was starkly different from policies that the US had dealt with before, subsequently leaving the Nixon Administration largely unsure of how to react. The change in FRG economic positioning vis-à-vis the United States, and catalyst political events in the 1960’s, created the impetus for Brandt’s vision of OStpolitik, which culminated in the interim West German control of the Western Alliance’s Eastern Politics.

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Die Einleitung zum vorliegenden Band zeigt anhand von Beispielen, dass die Wahrnehmung Deutschlands seit 1990 und die realen Entwicklungen auseinander driften. Die Einheit hat einen umfassenden Wandel ausgelöst oder in seiner Richtung beeinflusst. Trotzdem dominiert eine auf Kontinuitäten abhebende Sichtweise, kombiniert mit einem \"Separatblick\" auf Ostdeutschland. Es ist daher Anliegen des Buches, die Prozesse des Wandels trotz Annäherung aufzuzeigen und zu erklären sowie zu prüfen, ob es Ostdeutschland als relevante Raumgröße noch gibt. Der Beitrag resümiert zentrale Erkenntnisse des Bandes und fordert schließlich eine neue Deutschlandforschung, die regionalen Prozessen mehr Beachtung schenkt und die Entwicklung der Bundesrepublik als unabgeschlossen konzeptualisiert.

Also published as author's dissertation--Hannover, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-402).

Thesis (doctoral)--Universität zu Köln. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 425-463).

Habilitationsschrift--Bonn, 1977. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 437-459) and index.

Originally presented as the author's Thesis (doctoral--Universität Duisburg-Essen, 2004) under the title: Das Amerika-Bild der Westdeutschen in der Zeit des Ost-West-Konfliktes im Spiegel der Wahlkampfkommentierung ausgewählter Tageszeitungen des Ruhrgebietes in den Jahren 1948 bis 1992. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-317).

Thesis (M.A.)--Ohio State University, 1959. / Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center