Export hit 'Vergangenheitsbewältigung' Germany and European integration as a model for Korea and East Asia?

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Authors
Publication date 2016
Journal Asian Journal of German and European Studies
Article number 4
Volume | Issue number 1
Number of pages 9
Organisations
  • Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) - Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR)
Abstract
The process of coming to terms with the history of two dictatorships against the backdrop of the country’s partition and reunification makes Germany a special extraordinary case and a pioneer for other states as well. The German Vergangenheitsbewältigung (coming to terms with the past), has been an inspiration for other EU member states and for the process of European integration. Also, on an European level, history is an important source of identity formation.

Can the German Vergangenheitsbewältigung, German Unification, and European Integration be a source of inspiration for Korea and East Asia?
Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1186/s40856-016-0003-0
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