Library
You can find all material for the individual learning units here.
Module A: Contemporary History
The International and Domestic Perspective of German Re-Unification 1989/90
Web resources: http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/section.cfm?section_id=16
Additional Readings:
Heinrich August Winkler: Germany. The long road to the West. Vol. 2: 1933–1990. Oxford 2007pp. 490–538.
Martin Kitchen: A History of Modern Germany. 1800 to the Present. Chichester 2000, pp. 387–390.
William W. Hagen: German History in Modern Times. Four Lives of the Nation. Cambridge 2012, pp. 399 – 410.
Mary Fulbrook: A History of Germany 1918–2008. The Divided Nation. Chichester 2009, pp. 267–289.
Link to download the material: https://unibox.uni-rostock.de/getlink/fiEZwqnaaAjGSSbqjsdKMC9Y/
Recorded video of the lecture:
The secret police of East Germany and its role in the Peaceful Revolution of 1989/1990
Additional Readings:
BStU (Ed.): Access to Secrecy. Exhibition on the Stasi Records Archive. Berlin 2020. Download for free: https://www.bstu.de/assets/bstu/de/Publikationen/Katalog_DA_EiG_EN_barrierefrei_reduziert.pdf
Münkel, Daniela (Ed.): State Security. A Reader on the GDR Secret Police. Berlin 2018. Download for free: https://www.bstu.de/assets/bstu/de/Publikationen/EV_Lesebuch_EN_Auflage_02_barrierefrei.pdf
Childs, David: The Fall of the GDR. London 2001.
Gieseke, Jens: The History of the Stasi. East Germany’s Secret Police 1945-1990. New York 2012.
Link to download the movie: https://web.uni-rostock.de/vs1/fakult/philfak/imd/HI/SARU_MHeinz.mp4 .
Recorded video of the Lecture:
https://unibox.uni-rostock.de/getlink/fiEgPsdfU4ZuNEhQ9ZiPgnbF/2021-06-30_Heinz_Stasi-Records.mp4
Module B: International Aspects
International dynamics of reunified Germany
Additional Readings:
Klaus Brummer and Kai Oppermann (2016). Germany’s Foreign Policy after the End of the Cold War: “Becoming Normal?” Oxford Handbooks online, https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935307.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199935307-e-1
Rainer Hillebrand (2019). Germany and the New Global Order: The Country’s Power Resources Reassessed, https://www.e-ir.info/2019/09/22/germany-and-the-new-global-order-the-countrys-power-resources-reassessed/
Recorded video of the lecture:
German reunification and the EU eastward expansion
Recorded Video of the lecture:
Everyday life and minorities in North Korea
Lecture Presentation:
https://unibox.uni-rostock.de/getlink/fiNXJoGMVR5FreUYJFCwTGMu/2021-SARU-KSH.pdf
Recorded video of the lecture:
https://unibox.uni-rostock.de/getlink/fi7txKGMFismuTbXGqq9euHq/2021-07-01_KIM_Seok-Hyang.mp4
Korean unification and Northeast Asian relations
Lecture Presentation:
Recorded video of the lecture:
https://unibox.uni-rostock.de/getlink/fi8hwnqqBEuDDtWGdQDTN9z/2021-07-01_PARK_Ihn-Hwi.mp4
Module C: National And Regional Aspects
German politics after unification and regional implications
Web resources:
Politics of Germany (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Germany) Wikipedia – Politics of Germany
Germany’s political parties CDU, CSU, SPD, AfD, FDP, Left party, Greens – what you need to know (https://www.dw.com/en/germanys-political-parties-cdu-csu-spd-afd-fdp-left-party-greens-what-you-need-to-know/a-38085900)
Additional Readings:
Saalfeld, Thomas, and Harald Schoen, 2015: Party Politics and Electoral Behaviour, in: Sarah Colvin (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of German Politics and Culture, New York: Routledge, 105-118 (http://lspwpp.sowi.uni-mannheim.de/team/lehrstuhlinhaber/Beiträge%20in%20Sammelbänden/Saalfeld%20and%20Schoen%20Party%20politics_2015.pdf Saalfeld & Schön – Party Politics 2015
Lecture Presentation:
https://unibox.uni-rostock.de/getlink/fiAxykEsgDqei8zuYf3is73E/Muno_German%20Politics%20SARU2021.pdf
Additional Slides:
https://unibox.uni-rostock.de/getlink/fiA56rSADGHjMr3B5jjLQ4a2/SARU_Elections2021.pdf
Recorded video of the lecture:
https://unibox.uni-rostock.de/getlink/fiY3beYWJjNmidqvb7vfKQi1/2021-06-30-Muno_German_Politics.mp4
Germany after re-unification: A Canadian view
Youtube Videos:
Canada and Germany: Interactions from Cold war to Reunification
Language and indigenous polarization in Canada
Coulthard, G. S. (2007). Subjects of empire: Indigenous peoples and the ‘politics of recognition’in Canada. Contemporary political theory, 6(4), 437-460.
Medeiros, Mike. “Not just about Quebec: accounting for Francophones’ attitudes towards Canada.” French Politics 15, no. 2 (2017): 223-236.
Youtube Videos:
Let’s Talk About Canada
History, memory and politics in the Berlin Republic
https://unibox.uni-rostock.de/getlink/fiNLFAsgvzHDacnSt6Wgcaey/SaundersMemorializing_intro.pdf
Recorded video of the lecture:
Module D: Legal And Economic Aspects
The legal shaping of German reunification
Web resources:
German History in Documents and Images http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/section.cfm?section_id=16
Additional Readings:
Frowein, The Reunification of Germany, The American Journal of International Law, Vol. 86, No. 1 (Jan., 1992), pp. 152-163 (http://www.jstor.org/stable/2203146)
Link to download the presentation:
https://unibox.uni-rostock.de/getlink/fi9ZfrzCx2gD95vDAWePubhX/2021-07-07_Rehberg_LegalShaping.pdf
Link to download the videos:
https://unibox.uni-rostock.de/getlink/fiUnGo5ZQW34AvaBU2Qnz7o6/2021-07-07_Rehberg_LegalShaping
Link to download the materials:
https://unibox.uni-rostock.de/getlink/fiBe78AXEsAvJxLuMmf7THUS/
Economy in North and South Korea
Lecture slides:
https://unibox.uni-rostock.de/getlink/fiVjrciHhJL9DAACbbBoMbRh/rostock_saru_2021_0705.pdf
Recorded video of the lecture:
https://unibox.uni-rostock.de/getlink/fiK5dYT6qZ1JcD9ER61C7CCN/2021-07-05_KIM_Seiwan_Economy.mp4
Module E: Cultural, Social, Demographic Aspects
Gender relations in Germany before and after reunification
Link to download the material:
https://unibox.uni-rostock.de/getlink/fiA4PnKNr89rNUE1dyaWWPJC/Haney_2002HT.pdf
Lecture presentation:
https://unibox.uni-rostock.de/getlink/fiCzrBVHqZ7ggbJoLH4i3Amv/2021-07-06_Trappe_Gender.pdf
M-V and German unification: recording and (re-)constructing social change on film
Web resources:
https://www.amber-online.com/collection/from-us-to-me/
Additional Readings:
Lynne Haney – After the fall: east european women since the collapse of state socialism
Recorded video of the lecture:
https://unibox.uni-rostock.de/getlink/fiJ36zSdYaFB25TwbaHkUKX/2021-07-07_Linke_German_Film.mp4
Module F: Sites of the Cold War
Berlin in the Cold War
Video Link:
https://unibox.uni-rostock.de/getlink/fiTHnwG3BUd6J4Jt2NRKDMPD/Berlin%20SARU%20Version2.mp4
Youtube Link: