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Current Research on Reconciliation -- Explanatory Variables from the Different Strands of IR Theories -- Reconciliation: Making a Better Defined Area for IR Students -- Correlation between Economic Interdependence and Peace -- Bounded Rationality and Redefined Self-Interest -- Comparative Study of Related Indicators and Reconciliation Outcomes -- Typology of Memory and Correlated Reconciliation -- Correlation between Political Similarity and a Stable Restored Relationship -- Converging Narrative between Germany and France -- Diverging Narratives between China and Japan.

Reconciliation is an important agenda for post-war countries. It plays a major role in harmonizing bilateral and regional relations. Lin Ren compares reconciliations between the Sino-Japanese and the Franco-German dyads. Each dyad shares a deep-rooted historic antagonism. Nevertheless, France and Germany have reached a far deeper degree of reconciliation. The author explores the causes that led to the diverse outcomes, so as to challenge taking rationality as the single micro-foundation of decision-making concerning reconciliation.   Contents ·        Economic Interdependence ·        Maintaining or Challenging Equilibrium ·        Convergent Memories of History ·        Political Similarity ·        Territorial Narratives     Target Groups ·        Researchers and students in the fields of political science, international relations and history ·        Journalists, politicians    The Author Dr. Lin Ren completed her PhD at Freie Universität Berlin under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Klaus Segbers at the Department of Political and Social Sciences.