National identity and political priorities in eastern and western Germany

Media framing and social movement mobilization: German peace protest against INF missiles, the Gulf War, and NATO peace enforcement in Bosnia

“…(If anything, the popularity of unification in 1990 should have dampened protest against the Gulf War more than against German involvement in Bosnia.) On the more negative side, protest with respect to 'new social movement' issues like environmentalism had subsided since the 1980s and 'post-material' issues had lost ground to the material ones of unification (Della Porta & Rucht 1995;Veen & Zelle 1995). In comparison to the 1980s, this general decline of protest on the left may well have dampened protest on peace issues during the 1990s, in particular if this decline reflected a deterioration of the informal networks that had contributed to the organizational basis and 'micromobilization contexts' (McAdam 1988) for peace protest in the 1980s.…”