Becoming Madam Chancellor

Viac o knihe

Introduction: 'Becoming Madam Chancellor'; Part I. 'The Personal is the Political': 1. The extreme make-over of Angela Merkel: gender, style and substance; 2. A Pastor's daughter in a 'difficult Fatherland': reconciling East and West German identities; 3. From Staatsräson to Realpolitik: reconfiguring German-Israeli relations; Part II. From understudy to leading lady: Angela Merkel on the global stage: 4. Checkmate: Angela Merkel, Vladimir Putin and the dilemmas of regional hegemony; 5. Madam non and the euro-crisis: shaping economic integration and governance; Part III. 'Method Merkel' and the Push for Domestic Reforms: 6. Fukushima, mon Amour: Merkel and the (supra)national energy turn-around; 7. Germany as a land of immigration: citizenship, refugees and the welcoming culture; 8. 'Misunderestimating' the world's most powerful woman, or why gender still matters; Bibliography.