@inbook{10.7864/j.ctt12614w.9,
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7864/j.ctt12614w.9},
 abstract = {The election campaign of 2002 was conclusive proof that the Berlin republic had replaced the Bonn republic, the republic of West Germany. Centered in the Rhineland and facing west, Bonn was close geographically and culturally to Paris, Brussels, and Amsterdam. It was small, even cozy, and it reassured rather than frightened both the German people and their neighbors. It was a town—and a republic—without much history. Its scale was modest, as were its pretensions.The seat of the Berlin republic, in contrast, is a city of 3.5 million inhabitants, located within an hour of the Polish border. The},
 bookauthor = {Stephen F. Szabo},
 booktitle = {Parting Ways: The Crisis in German-American Relations},
 pages = {104--130},
 publisher = {Brookings Institution Press},
 title = {Welcome to the Berlin Republic},
 year = {2004}
}