A decade after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of the GDR, and the end of the Cold War, Germany has begun to cope with the political, economic, social, and nationalistic challenges unification has posed to its institutions and way of life in both the western and eastern part of the once divided nation. The books' 11 authors, all experts in their field, analyze the way united Germany has tackled the many unforeseen problems and highlighted the gradually emerging short and long-term patterns in Germany's slow adjustment to the new realities.