Ole Wæver writes that there are three competing versions of an all-European future unfolding with German unity. But while the French, German and Russian ‘Europes’ are racing each other to the finishing line, all three are crucially interlocked for reasons of realpolitik. The result is a grand bargaining process between Germany and the two losers of the postwar peace.
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