Los dilemas de la unificación alemana de 1990. Antecedentes geopolíticos y de identidad nacionalista

Abstract

The complex international historical process that the definition of the German Nation-State underwent throughout the twentieth century determined the mechanisms for the German unification of 1990. International factors played a central role in the political reconfiguration of German territory and its changing geographical conceptualizations, this situation led to the emergence of specific forms of nationalism. The division of Germany after 1945 between the Soviet and U.S. spheres of influence was driven by a global power politics in which military deployment and control over its territory were both a security issue and a geopolitical matter. Therefore, international factors circumscribed the respective national processes of the German Democratic Republic and Federal Republic of Germany, and as a result the 1990 unification was principally triggered by international factors.