Becoming Madam Chancellor : Angela Merkel and the Berlin Republic /
"Since 2005, Angela Merkel has transformed not only the way Germans see themselves but also the way that politicians worldwide, male and female, perceive women in power. The East German daughter of a Protestant pastor, this physicist-turned-politician has deployed her life experiences to cultiv...
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Cambridge, United Kingdom :
Cambridge University Press,
2017.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: "becoming Madam Chancellor"
- Part I. "The personal is the political"
- The extreme makeover of Angela Merkel: gender, style, and substance
- A pastor's daughter in a "difficult fatherland": reconciling East and West German identities
- From Staatsräson to Realpolitik: reconfiguring German-Israeli relations
- Part II. From understudy to leading lady: Angela Merkel on the global stage
- Checkmate: Angela Merkel, Vladimir Putin, and the dilemmas of regional hegemony
- Madam Non and the Euro crisis: shaping economic integration and governance
- Part III. "Method Merkel" and the push for domestic reforms
- Fukushima, mon Amour: "Merkel and the (supra)national energy turn-around
- Germany as a land of immigration: citizenship, refugees, and the welcoming culture
- "Misunderestimating" the world's most powerful woman, or why gender still matters.