The SPD after Brandt: Problems of integration in a changing Urban society
Since 1982, the electoral fortunes of the SPD have followed a downward trend, accompanied by a pervasive malaise and uncertainty regarding coalitions with the Greens. The strategic choice before the SPD is mirrored by the analogous dilemma of the CDU/CSU with regard to the FDP. The problems of integrating the ‘two or more SPDs’ in a rapidly changing urban society are aggravated by the sectarian New Left in the big cities. Only a new consensus based on widely popular themes can lead the SPD back into power.
The ambivalence of the SPD and the end of its Ostpolitik
The Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) has been struggling over the last few years to regain its unity and electoral support. However, since reunification, the party has been declining and splintering as never before. The oldest party in Germany is becoming painfully aware that its present trials and tribulations can be directly linked to its ambivalent position immediately prior to and following the dramatic events of 1989 and 1990. This article addresses the SPD‐SED relationship, one of the most heated topics amongst academics and politicians both within and outside the SPD. It also attempts to account for the Social Democratic ambivalence surrounding the fall of the GDR and the reunification of Germany. Above all, this work highlights the struggle of the SPD coming to terms with the end of its Ostpolitik.
The Lunar Rocks
Book on lunar rocks covering pre-Apollo lunar scientific knowledge, Apollo and future lunar mission planning, lunar mineralogy, petrology and geochemistry, etc