... countries about "German identity" (which still seems to be a favorite question outside Germany especially in American colleges and universities) I like to draw my foreign colleagues' attention to the unique German positive experience with semi-sovereignty. Positive connotations with semi-sovereignty may be one reason why Germans are not frightened like others who seem to be confronted with an ... . But it worked extremely well with Germany sticking essentially to its constitution of 1949 to "tame and frame- the revolutionary events of 1989/1990. To paraphrase a term of Timothy Garton Ash...

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