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Originally published in 1987, this book examines German
governmental policy from 1969-1986 and explains this in terms of
the political, economic and administrative dynamics of the (then)
Federal Republic. The study includes analysis of the attitudes and
the role of West German interest groups, political parties, public
opinion, the legislature and the federal states regarding European
policy. The book is based on extensive interviews as well as the
authors' familiarity with the institutions and key players
involved. It will appeal to students of German politics, the EU and
international relations.
The way Germany engages with the other states of the EU is often
oversimplified and misunderstood. This book offers a nuanced
analysis of the German role in the EU, using a novel approach which
identifies German influence in the EU in terms of "soft" power.
Rather than pursuing interests at the expense of other states, this
book focuses on the creation of a "milieu" of multilateral
cooperation in which Germany's diplomatic interests can
flourish.
This book explains German behaviour in the European Community in
terms of domestic politics of Federal Republic, covering the period
1969-86. It includes analysis of the attitudes and the role of West
German interest groups, public opinion and the legislature
regarding European policy.
1929, and Donald Kirkwood's Zululand cotton farm is abandoned. The
family moves to Chelmsford, a clifftop house on the northern
outskirts of Durban. Afrikaner right-wingers plot pro-Nazi support
as Hitler continues his rise to power during the 1930s. In Durban,
society is more concerned with horse racing and doing good works
among marginalised Zulus and Indians. When war breaks out in Europe
and north-east Africa, Donald Kirkwood's son Ewan enlists and is
exposed to the full horrors of war. He joins the Springbok Legion
in Addis Ababa, a fraternity for all servicemen to help those in
need. Later, his romance across the colour-bar with a beautiful
Indian girl leads to disaster. The novel is rich with characters -
Keswick Jardine, the harbourmaster, who opens the French doors of
his house with a system of levers linked to a ship's wheel in the
sitting room; Jeeves, the Jardines' Indian butler, who chuckles
away in his rooms at night, reading books by P G Wodehouse; and the
pretty half-caste bar girl Rosa in Lourenco Marques who helps
Malcolm Muggeridge disable the Italian consul, described by spy Kim
Philby as "the most dangerous man in Africa". This novel completes
the Kirkwood family trilogy set in a troubled South Africa and
'bookended' by two world wars.
The First World War is over, and parts of Natal are thrown open to
white settlers for development; Donald Kirkwood acquires 1500 acres
of raw veld to develop a cotton farm. While camping there with
little more than a tent and a post box made from a biscuit tin, he
builds a house and prepares the land. The farmers must cope with a
fatal cattle disease, catastrophic floods, and locusts. The
settlement is rich with eccentric characters, not least little Mrs
Potgieter, who delivers eggs wrapped in scraps of the Zululand
Times; Eric, an American volunteer ambulance driver on the Western
Front, and his French wife Marie; and Padraig O'Grady, an Irishman
who fought with the Boers, and his wife Sarie, daughter of one of
them. Anyone who loves Africa will love this book, as will anyone
desiring to gain a better un-derstanding of the complicated society
in post-colonial South Africa. This is the second book in the
Kirkwood Trilogy, the first being The Snake in the Signal Box.
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