Power and the Past

Eric Langenbacher is a visiting assistant professor and director of the honors program in the Department of Government at Georgetown University. Yossi Shain is Romulo Betancourt Professor of Political Science at Tel Aviv University and professor of comparative government and diaspora politics in the Department of Government at Georgetown University.

• Introduction: Twenty-first-Century MemoriesEric Langenbacher and Yossi Shain 1. Collective Memory as a Factor in Political Culture and International RelationsEric Langenbacher 2. Germany's National Identity, Collective Memory, and Role AbroadBettina Warburg 3. Collective Memory and German-Polish RelationsEric Langenbacher 4. Building Up a Memory: Austria, Switzerland, and Europe Face the HolocaustAvi Beker 5. Memory, Tradition, and Revival: Who, Then, Speaks for the Jews?Ori Z. Soltes 6. September 11 in the Rearview Mirror: Contemporary Policies and Perceptions of the PastOmer Bartov7. The Eventful Dates 12/12 and 9/11: Tales of Power and Tales of Experience in Contemporary HistoryMichael Kazin8. The Use and Abuse of History in Berlin and Washington Since 9/11: A Plea for a New Era of CandorJeffrey Herf9. Of Shrines and Hooligans: The Structure of the History Problem in East Asia after 9/11Thomas U. Berger10. Popular Culture and Collective Memory: Remembering and Forgetting in Chinese-U.S. Relations after 9/11Gerrit W. GongConclusion: Collective Memory and the Logic of Appropriate BehaviorYossi ShainContributors Index

This remarkable collection of essays shows that it is possible to treat a complex, delicate and controversial subject with, at the same time, subtlety, sensitivity and iconoclasm... The book deepens our understanding of problems linked to the presence in international relations of a past which refuses to go away. Survival