March 2012
Intermediate to advanced
118 pages
2h 49m
English
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Originally published in The Japan Times, September 1, 2005. Used with permission of Michael R. Czinkota and The Japan Times.
When German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder precipitated early elections in Germany, the decision to seek electoral guidance appeared appealing. Since then, the choices on Sept. 18 have been remarkable mainly for their paucity and obscurity. Unless the parties and their candidates are able to crystallize their options more, Germany will have been deprived of the opportunity to do better.
German policy and its economy have been troubled for some time. So it comes as little surprise that all parties ...