Who's afraid of Germany? A European hall of mirrors since 1870 (working title)

这本书以一种新颖的方式结合了两个故事：经常被讲述的德国在欧洲的力量的故事；以及欧洲不同的共同观念和刻板印象的历史。它始于对“德国认知陷阱”的观察，这是自19世纪以来相互认知的一种模式：德国人认为他们是不可否认的权利，其他人认为德国的霸权野心；它确实在国家社会主义灭绝战中超出了所有人的预期，强化了这些认知，并在战后的德国制造了对这些恐惧的恐惧。以德国为例，本书的目的是解释欧洲内部自我认知和外部认知之间的差异。这本书旨在确定刻板印象的起源、持续和变化以及政治相关性，并分析结构、行为和观念之间的相互作用。通过这样做，该书有助于跨国刻板印象的研究，结合了国际政治和情感学的概念方法，并从一个新的角度描述了德国在欧洲的历史。它旨在向欧洲读者揭示为什么他们经常无法理解德国，并希望向德国读者解释为什么会出现这种情况。通过这种方式，这本书超越了它的分析抱负，追求为更广泛的受众提供信息的对象。

This book combines two stories in a novel way: the often told story of German strength in Europe; and the history of different mutual perceptions and stereotypes in Europe. It starts from the observation of the "German perception trap", a pattern of mutual perceptions since the 19th century: what Germans consider to be their undeniable right, others regard as German ambition for hegemony; which indeed materialised beyond all expectations in the National Socialist war of extermination, reinforcing those perceptions and creating the fear of those fears in post-War Germany.Using Germany as its example, the goal of this book is to explain the discrepancies between self- and external perceptions within Europe. It aims to identify origins, persistence and change as well as the political relevance of stereotypes; and to analyse the interaction of structure, conduct and perceptions.In doing so, the book contributes to research in transnational stereotypes, combines the conceptual approaches of international politics and emotionology and describes Germany's history within Europe from a new perspective. It aims to reveal to European readers why they often fail to understand Germany, and it hopes to explain to German readers why this is the case. In this way, the book goes above and beyond its analytical aspirations to pursue an informative object for a wider audience.